![]() ![]() At times, apparently arbitrary coincidences that catch the characters and the readers off guard, permeate his stories, providing a key to character in the possibility and plasticity of free human decision in the face of apparently unforeseeable interconnections. 2 Barks s fiction is a place where the freedom to choose coincidences 3 can comment on the real. What Barks tried to dismiss as mere storytelling devices have much greater significance, however, because of the insight they provide into the relations between fiction and reality, and into the uncanny nature of the world as it exists all the time in Barks s metaphysics invisible interconnections operating from somewhere 1 that seem to assert themselves only occasionally in everyday life when coincidences trigger chains of unlikely and irreversible events. ![]() ![]() 1 Visionary Synchronicities in Carl Barks Comics by Donald Ault Carl Barks s narrative worlds are virtually pervaded by what could be called visionary synchronicities what in his homespun terms Barks himself always referred to as "gimmicks" tricky devices and running gags that gave him extraordinary flexibility in fashioning his stories and his characters (Carl Barks: Conversations, 49). ![]()
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