On Fanfiction aka Neat.O aka Pugh's "The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in a Literary Context"

[skywardprodigal]

"For most people, John F. Kennedy Jr was a character in a play, a character in a story, just the way Sherlock Holmes was. When he's lost, then people react very emotionally. Constantly rehearsing the details of somebody's life and death shows that people are trying to continue the story. We always try to do that when the story ends before we're prepared for the ending." Neil Postman at NYU.

(If you clink, click the link, you'll go to an article by Sheenan Pugh).

I like the quote.

The article amuses too. And it's got footnotes. :)

There's Geoffrey Chaucer/Robert Henryson, Colley Cibber/Sir John Vanbrugh, Conan Doyle/William Gillette. These are otps of a funner sort. Too bad Anne Rice/Vamp-chronicles-fans is a dead-duck-in-the-water.