Lost, or better yet 'abandoned' to the fictional worlds of the novels or movies that attract and hold a reader/viewer's attention. 'Engage.' Indeed, this is the telling word that points to a constellation of deeper forms of aesthetic response such as 'immersed', 'absorbed' or just plain 'lost'. as a famous Starship Captain often said, 'Let the prattle begin.' In her book, 'The Art of Being, Poetics of the Novel and Existential Philosophy', Ong cites this essay at length.

In the dubious prattle that follows, one seeks to examine the phrase, 'the miracle of storytelling,' spoken in 'Donnie Darko' through the lens of Beauvoir's parallel phrase, 'the miracle of literature' written in her essay, 'What Can Literature Do?'.

Review: 'Donnie Darko Book' seen through the lens of Ong's 'The Art of Being'įind here the transcendent theme (and perhaps two others) for the Good Reads team's friendly notice and that transcendent theme is the concept of 'miracle,' (as well as 'deus ex machina' and realism).

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