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David Duchovny Fiction
X-Files Actor is Apparently Cranking Out Some Incredible Fiction
This reviewer at City Journal thinks David Duchovny may have just published a modern classic. This passage specifically grabbed me:
Duchovny’s story is rare in revealing how our ego is really a body ego. Martin Luther may have been spurred to reform Christianity by terrible constipation. (A few prunes may have spared Europe centuries of religious wars.) But most of us, when our body is distressed, are not as acute as we normally are.
Like any good Catholic, I immediately thought, “Ah, yes. A sacramental view of the body. A complete rejection of the Cartesian dualism that lobotomized the modern mind! And his name is pretty ethnic, eastern European-sounding. I found myself another closet Catholic!”:
Well, almost. According to his Wikipedia entry, he’s Jewish and Lutheran. “Jew or Not a Jew” says he’s a “Borderline Jew.” He apparently refers to himself as a “fake Zen Buddhist” (which I can sympathize with: I’ve played one of those, too).
He reportedly once received treatment for sex addiction, which plays harshly against the Zen Buddhism thing, but maybe his is just a really sharp Cartesian dualism between body and soul that tries to serve (slavishly) two masters . . . or maybe a monism that washes…
