Set me down inside a diner scene—in a film, a novel, on TV—and I’m bound to settle into whatever story you’re telling.  My back intuits the vinyl of the booth; my small breath quickens to mingle with the sighs aspiring from warmed coffee; surrounding chatter about new storefront churches, high-school basketball and the weather becomes the weather I know.  David Lynch, that great, mad American filmmaker, touched the truth when he said, “There’s a safety in thinking in a diner.