I have no intention whatsoever of episodic-blogging Durarara!! (I won’t have time, probably). But as long as it keeps impressing me — by which I mean, necessarily selfishly, working for and with me — I’ll no doubt continue to devote a bit of time every once in a while to figuring the thing out via bloggery.

I mentioned before that I’m particularly interested in Durarara!! because it deals with something I’ve been calling, reluctantly and for lack of a better term, “interstitial urban mythology” — that is, the magic that lurks in the places between the everyday, and takes forms consistent with the world we live in. The first episode introduced us to the Durarara!! mythos; the second, in providing another angle on certain events of the first, allows us a more intimate look at those interstices in which physics and logic become malleable.

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