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DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENTARY OF A FAILURE

About this "Documentary" I always think a documentary should be filmed, but I don't really have any video equipment, nor the time or motivation to put something like that together. So I'm writing it out. I had this idea once: "Documentary of a Failure". I thought it was terrifically clever. Like, no one ever starts off a documentary from the vantage point that the subject will fail. But, like most of my ideas I could think of no subject, so I jotted down the line in my sketchbook and let it be.

Then it hit me! The GIANT. It's a book I'm writing. It's bound to be a failure, why don't I give that a shot? Perfect. So that's what I'm doing. I will, as dutifully and impartially as possible, chart the failure of my book, the GIANT.

Two things:

Do I really believe the book will fail? Part of me does. Part of me sees myself sitting with Regis, talking about how such a whirlwind things have been. The odds are in the favor of the GIANT not being a success. And if it does? All the better for me, then this Documentary (of a Failure) would itself be a sort of failure?

I really don't know if anyone has made a documentary from the start expecting the subject to fail. The more I think about it, the more likely it seems. Fantastic for them if they have. But I still want to give this idea a try, it seems interesting.