Welp -- we got a two week wait until the next episode of “Twin Peaks, The Return”
- episode 9 ‘This is the chair’.
If anyone’s not a little befuddled at this point, you’re clearly not paying attention.
We had two back to back episodes this fortnight which couldn’t conflict more in tone, subject matter and style ....possibly than any contrasting things in the history of television.
Episode 7 was heralded as a return to form by fans, with Gordon Cole commenting on ‘Damn fine coffee’, a partial return of Special Agent Dale Cooper - followed by a string of perfect well-paced plot developments.
So...When Madchen Amick tweeted before the airing of Episode 8 ‘We are sexy. We are great. We are ready for part 8! Tune-in tonight u guys, lil birdies have told me this one will blow ur mind!’
....perhaps fans could be forgiven for thinking we would further integrate into that familiar world of Twin Peaks.
....perhaps fans could be forgiven for thinking we would further integrate into that familiar world of Twin Peaks.
Part 8 however turned out to be the most disorientating, surreal and damn right weirdest episode yet. And we loved it.
I think we had a little bit of foreshadowing of what was to come in Episode 7.
So while we’re sitting around chewing on that gum we like for two weeks, I think it makes sense...... to begin this in depth analysis of where we are at -- with the more confounding episode 8, and then work our way back to episode 7 and how it relates to the entire franchise. and hopefully we can somehow trace the curious twine threads of plot which have been deliberately obscured by the cat, for now.
UNPACKING EPISODE 8
The plot of Episode 8 started out normal enough, tuning back into the exploits of Mr C who having just escaped from federal prison with his miraculously living lackey Ray, are driving to an unknown location as Mr C attempts to plug some information from the wiley 'Ray', (Some co-ordinates which Ray has apparently memorised)
The plot of Episode 8 started out normal enough, tuning back into the exploits of Mr C who having just escaped from federal prison with his miraculously living lackey Ray, are driving to an unknown location as Mr C attempts to plug some information from the wiley 'Ray', (Some co-ordinates which Ray has apparently memorised)
Mr C, ever 2 steps ahead of the game, realises that the car is bugged with tracking devices, so getting dangerously close to a truck in front, Cooper retrieves his mobile device.
We are shortly to learn that Ray is definitely working for Phillip Jeffries, something which had always seemed probable, Jeffries and MR C now seem to be at a stalemate in their deadly chess game, the gamble of which seems to be who earns 'being one with Bob'.
Here's some quick facts about how Jeffries fits into the plot before we continue:
- Phillip Jeffries was in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a couple of years (or minutes, depending on your perspective) and encountered the Lodge dugpas.
- Lorraine, who organised the assasination attempt on Dougie Jones, and was subsequently asassinated by Ike the Spike, who works for Mr Todd in Las Vegas, and was killed by Agent Cooper in Episode 7 ----nervously, interacts with a machine in Argentina. (Linking her to Jeffries)
- Ike the Spike is hired for two hits--Lorraine and Dougie Jones--succeeding with the first.
- Ray checks in with Jeffries after attempting to kill DoppleCoop.
- Mr C also attempts to contact Jeffries in previous episodes, which would seem to indicate that he's unaware of Jeffries' attempts to thwart him
- The last time we saw Jeffries, he wasn't necessarily a "corrupted" spirit. He was still loyal to the FBI. So it is possible that, because of his interaction with the Lodge dugpas, he knows what's going on with Bob/DoppleCoop and is trying to stop him. He clearly knew something was up with Cooper when he met him in Cole's office. "Who do you think this is there?"
- Agent Jeffries may well yet be a good guy
- Maybe he's trying to stop Bob and help Cooper via outside agents like Lorraine and Ray--and, perhaps, the billionaire who financed the glass box.
The activation in this scene with Ray and Mr C is obviously reminiscent of the scene when Mr C and Lorraine both played part in the activation of the curious orange platter.
When Ray stops to take a piss, Mr C takes his 'friend' from the glovebox and proceeds to threaten Ray over the co-ordinates.
Ray shoots him, in a seemingly vacant wilderness. Almost as soon as Mr. C. falls to the ground, a gaggle of soot-covered shadow-men — like the ones we’ve seen haunting the police station in Buckhorn, S.D. — surround the evil Cooper and revive him by touching his body all over and smearing themselves with his blood. Ray runs away.Shadow people? Or innapopriate Hobo's doing 'black-face'? That's for David Lynch to know, and us to ponder in bewilderment.
There are a lot of parallels and dualities from the new season to the old, and it's worth noting that Cooper was shot in Episode 8 of the original series, by Josie at the great northern Hotel. So he has once again been shot in episode 8, of the return. Given the signicance of numbers in the return, I highly doubt this is an accident.
LODGE SPIRITS and LEMURIANS?
There's a lot of speculation about who these dark spirits are. In the credits they are listed as 'Woodsmen', and there seems little doubt after Episode 8 that these spirits are both linked to the black lodge, and the 'convenience store' as seen in Fire Walk with Me.
We get some hint at the origin of these creatures, or at least the method with which they have broken into our world. Is it possible these are the Lemurians as discussed by Frost and Lynch, and extrapolated on in 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks'..... an evil race of beings from the underworld? Or a sunken island in the pacific according to some conspiracy theories, (Lemuria/Mu as black lodge to Atlantis' white lodge)
There's a lot of speculation about who these dark spirits are. In the credits they are listed as 'Woodsmen', and there seems little doubt after Episode 8 that these spirits are both linked to the black lodge, and the 'convenience store' as seen in Fire Walk with Me.
We get some hint at the origin of these creatures, or at least the method with which they have broken into our world. Is it possible these are the Lemurians as discussed by Frost and Lynch, and extrapolated on in 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks'..... an evil race of beings from the underworld? Or a sunken island in the pacific according to some conspiracy theories, (Lemuria/Mu as black lodge to Atlantis' white lodge)
It's not a hundred percent clear what they are doing to Mr C, during this long scene, which is drawn out even further by a performance of Nine Inch Nails at the Roadhouse. Although from an appearance of Bob's face during this scene, it seems possible that these entities are effectively 'Removing Bob' from Agent Cooper's doppleganger (Whatever that means, really)
Whatever they do to Mr C, he shortly comes back to life, proving it's not so easy to kill EvilCoop. Wether these entities brought him back to life, or just stole Bob from him is yet to be determined.
The roadhouse acts as a cliff face, dropping off our linear narrative. It appears at the beginning of the episode this week, where we have been used to the roadhouse appearing closer to the end. I want to focus particularly on what the roadhouse symbolises in the return, and the original series. I think the confused narrative can only be understood from this perspective, however, before doing so, I want to finish discussing all the more abstract parts of Episode 8.
ATOMIC BOMB
Let's dive straight into the explosive core of Episode 8.
This is the moment we first realise this episode is not going to be the cake-walk that episode 7 was, in fact it's the most jarring, chaotic and supernatural of all of the episodes. The timing is glacial as we are forced to face the horrors of the nuclear bomb, face to face.
FIRE WALK WITH ME
Fire has always been a significant theme in Twin Peaks, from the Packard boat explosion to the explosion at the bank, and this is only more extended in the secret history novel.
I've been paying attention to forums and discussions on the new series, and the prediction of some kind of nuclear disaster has been floating around for a while. So pat yourselves on the back theorists.
Some cleverly picked up on the junkie mother in Las Vegas who screams '119', and both perceived that it was a mirror of 911 (The 911 terror attacks) An infamous fiery explosion of the 21st century;
Now, turn to page 119 of 'The secret history of Twin Peaks' and you will eerily find
'The Hanford Nuclear facility'
I've been paying attention to forums and discussions on the new series, and the prediction of some kind of nuclear disaster has been floating around for a while. So pat yourselves on the back theorists.
Some cleverly picked up on the junkie mother in Las Vegas who screams '119', and both perceived that it was a mirror of 911 (The 911 terror attacks) An infamous fiery explosion of the 21st century;
Now, turn to page 119 of 'The secret history of Twin Peaks' and you will eerily find
'The Hanford Nuclear facility'
There are many other references to fire and explosions in 'the return' (The car bombings being the most obvious example) and there are numerous more in 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks'
On page 66 we have an article from a spokane newspaper:which discusses;
'The infamous Yacoit Burn, of not so distant memory to the west of here, burned 200,000 acres of prime acreage, killed 38 mortal souls, and in the process destroyed 12 billion board feet of timber.'
'The infamous Yacoit Burn, of not so distant memory to the west of here, burned 200,000 acres of prime acreage, killed 38 mortal souls, and in the process destroyed 12 billion board feet of timber.'
Then later we are told about a fire a little closer to home:
'Case in point, the calamity that recently beset a nascent rural community north of Spokane. There in Twin Peaks, rival sawmills, operating on either side of the river, both used to bringing their loads to market, each became caught up in a frenzied drive to outdo the other.'
'This waterlogged stalemate persisted for two weeks, resistant to every remedy the companies employed. And then one unseasonably warm winter's night, as a dazzling display of the Northern lights painted the sky with colours the likes of which residents said they had never seen- cobalt and vermillion are not traditionally considered part of the Americas paint box- a catastrophic spark.
"Most say dry lightning from a passing storm struck. Other witnesses claim columns of fire descended from the sky, but whatever the source, the result was the same; that static flotilla of fir and pine soon erupted in flame. Like a dire biblical prophecy, visible for miles, the river burned for seven days and seven nights. It's coruscating glow could be glimpsed on the horizon, it is said from neigbouring states, even across the border into canada. Once the wind came up the fire spilled onto the shores on either side. The wretched town folk, deploying only a meagre volunteer fire brigade to combat the conflagration, watched helplessly as the fire raced up the tinder-dry hills from the river's bank, destroying all in its wake. Over half the wooden structures in the town of Twin Peaks - a community of hardy pioneers, merchants and homesteaders, barely three decades old-were lost.
Six people died in the fire and large numbers of livestock and livelihoods alike perished in the blaze.'
p69 'THE NIGHT OF THE BURNING RIVER; A man made calamity or ancient curse?'
Some have speculated that these 6 people who died in the fire could be these woodsmen we see.
Some have speculated that these 6 people who died in the fire could be these woodsmen we see.
I found various other ties to these woodsmen in 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks', some may be spurious. But right now we can only speculate and gestimate about the Hobo's, woodsman, lemurians? One interesting thing mentioned in the dossier, is the linking of Fred Crisman with the three tramps in Dealy plaza who were investigated as part of the assasination of John F Kennedy
(The Secret History of Twin Peaks p111)
(The Secret History of Twin Peaks p111)
LEMURIANS
On page 95 we have the specific references to Lemurians:
"Ray Palmer......The previous year Palmer had enjoyed his highest circulation by publishing a series of sensational articles by one Richard Sharpe Shaver, a Pensylvania welder and former hobo, who claimed he had aquired secret knowledge of an earlier 'progenitor' race of beings he called 'Lemurians'..... Not long after he started picking up more sinister telepathic signals--in effects "downloading' extended dialgoues almost like transcripts-- from the aforementioned Lemurians.
Shaver's strange narrative claimed that these Lemurians lived in vast underground cities-- accessible only by caves and lava tubes, frequently set deep below dormant volcanoes throughout the world.... They were a cruel, cold blooded race in possession of incredibly advanced technologies that they used to clsosely observe human life.Often interfering with and even tormenting, torturing and occasionally dining on humans.'
"Ray Palmer......The previous year Palmer had enjoyed his highest circulation by publishing a series of sensational articles by one Richard Sharpe Shaver, a Pensylvania welder and former hobo, who claimed he had aquired secret knowledge of an earlier 'progenitor' race of beings he called 'Lemurians'..... Not long after he started picking up more sinister telepathic signals--in effects "downloading' extended dialgoues almost like transcripts-- from the aforementioned Lemurians.
Shaver's strange narrative claimed that these Lemurians lived in vast underground cities-- accessible only by caves and lava tubes, frequently set deep below dormant volcanoes throughout the world.... They were a cruel, cold blooded race in possession of incredibly advanced technologies that they used to clsosely observe human life.Often interfering with and even tormenting, torturing and occasionally dining on humans.'
'Even more dangerous than the weapons, Shaver claimed, was the creatures telepathic ability to influence the minds of humans without their knowing it, forcing them to take actions against their will. The stories also claimed that the Lemurians had forever been opposed by a second race of peaceful aliens-- called 'teros'--with whom they were locked in eternal battle. Hailing from somewhere in the PLeiades, these 'teros' individuals were allegedly human-like enough in appearance to live unnoticed by the human race.He wrote that they would occasionally reveal themselves and confide in humans in order to enlist our help in the battle'
One wonders if these good entities could be the giant and other entities of the white lodge whom we have encountered.
One wonders if these good entities could be the giant and other entities of the white lodge whom we have encountered.
On page 97 we have a linkage with Fred Crisman, allegedly one of the three tramps and the Lemurians:
"Crisman claimed he stumbled over Lemurian cave in Burma, and barely escaped with his life"
Later claimed he found a second Lemurian cave in Alaska. Could Crisman have been possessed by the Lemurians to assassinate JFK in this mythology? More importantly do these Lemurian caves remind anyone else of a certain owl cave?
But to return to the subject of the Nuclear explosion.
on page 116 of 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks', we have these quotes;
"One of the first nuclear production complexes to produce weapons grade plutonium, is located at Hanford, Washington. Located 200 miles east of Tacoma around a bare, desertlike stretch of the Columbia river, the Hanford Ordinance works-- often more beningly refered to as the Hanford Engineering company-- is nearly half the size of Rhode Island. In 1942 the government seized this land by exercise of eminent domain, a constitutional right most citizens don't even know exists. Over 1,500 people were 'relocated' from two nearby farming communities, creating ghost towns that exist to this day. They also removed people of three native american nations, including Lewis and Clark's old friends the Nez Perce..(Hawk's heritage)... Once the Manhattan project split the atom, the B reactor the government built at Hanford produced most of the plutonium used in the bomb dropped at Nagasaki, as well as in most of the nuclear weapons America continued to manufacture throughout the Cold War. As a result Hanford covertly released a massive amount of nuclear waste, a threat of contamination to the area's groundwater and other resources. So what did they do with it? Recently declassified documents reveal that in 1949, soon after the war, officials at Hanford covertly released massive amounts of raw, irradiated uranium fuel into the local environment."
"One of the first nuclear production complexes to produce weapons grade plutonium, is located at Hanford, Washington. Located 200 miles east of Tacoma around a bare, desertlike stretch of the Columbia river, the Hanford Ordinance works-- often more beningly refered to as the Hanford Engineering company-- is nearly half the size of Rhode Island. In 1942 the government seized this land by exercise of eminent domain, a constitutional right most citizens don't even know exists. Over 1,500 people were 'relocated' from two nearby farming communities, creating ghost towns that exist to this day. They also removed people of three native american nations, including Lewis and Clark's old friends the Nez Perce..(Hawk's heritage)... Once the Manhattan project split the atom, the B reactor the government built at Hanford produced most of the plutonium used in the bomb dropped at Nagasaki, as well as in most of the nuclear weapons America continued to manufacture throughout the Cold War. As a result Hanford covertly released a massive amount of nuclear waste, a threat of contamination to the area's groundwater and other resources. So what did they do with it? Recently declassified documents reveal that in 1949, soon after the war, officials at Hanford covertly released massive amounts of raw, irradiated uranium fuel into the local environment."
Is this contamination perhaps later alluded to in a certain woodsman's poem?
Also, did the mushroom cloud remind anyone else of a certain lodge character?
JACK PARSONS AND THE MOTHER OF ABOMINATIONS
Alright so in league with discussing the reappearance of the alien in a box/mother/creature of nuclear destruction, I think it's worth looking at some of the Jack Parson's material in 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks'
This reddit poster makes some good arguments about the Mother of abominations possibly viewed in Episode 8:
Alright so in league with discussing the reappearance of the alien in a box/mother/creature of nuclear destruction, I think it's worth looking at some of the Jack Parson's material in 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks'
On page 243 of TSHOTP there is an interview with L.Ron Hubbard and Richard Nixon, which contains the following quotes:
Hubbard: 'While pursuing my writing career, living in Los Angeles at the time --this was August of 1945--acquaintances of mine, some of them fellow writers, introduced me to a group of people living in Pasedena. This social circle revolved around a man named Marvel John Whiteside Parsons, who went by the name of Jack....
....invited me to stay at his house in Pasadena. I say 'house' but it was a mansion, really. Known locally as, a bit of a pun, 'The Parsonage'..."
....I discovered that Parsons had been consorting with a peculiar cultish and self styled religion that it's adherents called 'Thelema'...patterned after the notorious mystic Alestair Crowley'
'...A strange incense laden air of debauchery, populated by a motley assemblage of leftists, bohemians and hangers on.... many of the guests wore colourful, erotic masks, and a few were in elaborate Egyptian costumes or masks with distorted animal faces. Disturbing atonal music played from somewhere....
...at one point I found myself alone in a strange room upstairs with Parsons. The walls were festooned with crossed swords, symbols from the tarot, pagan artwork. It was furnished only with a skull shaped altar, what looked like a throne and an unnerving life-sized statue of a beastial satyr, which Parsons told me is the Demi-God pan. (Parsons is fond of stomping his feet while reciting a poem called 'Ode to Pan' during test launches)
(I notice he's wearing a jade ring on his right ring finger, a flat green stone, maybe jade, etched with some sort of inscription)
'(He takes what looks like an ancient silver coin from his pocket and performs some kind of sleight of hand with it; suddenly there are two coins)'
Just as an aside many will immediately make connections here between the Chalfont grandson and the sinister drug dealer 'Red' played by Balthasar Getty.
JP: 'Alchemy actually speaks to internal processes, and a radical revolution in our spiritual development; transforming the 'base metal' of primitive man to the 'gold' of the enlightened soul.'
'..Rockets and magic are both about breaking through the animal boundaries of space and time that hold us back from realising our potential.'
(He stares at me a moment with his dark brown eyes, then turns his gaze to the statue of Pan, gets a faraway look and mutters something under his breath;)
'The magician longs to see...'
Douglas Milford interview with Parsons, ragarding L.Ron Hubbard - p253
DM: 'Was he a member of your church aswell?'
JP: 'Oh yeah. He dove right in. Relentless, he wanted to know everything about it. We worked together, tirelessly, for two years on a uh...ok a really important project
DM: 'Are you talking about rockets or magic?'
JP: (lowers his voice) See, these were things Crowley had written about. A ritual that he'd attempted in Europe--important work--but no one had ever tried it over here.'
DM: 'A ritual? And Hubbard was helping you with this?'
(He nodded, a faraway look in his eye)
JP: 'We saw things that maybe men aren't supposed to see
DM: Where was this?
JP: 'Out in the desert. The deserts a perfect medium for summoning
.....
JP: Ever been to Roswell?
DM: Roswell, New Mexico? As a matter of fact, I have.
JP: We were near there. In the desert. A place they call Jornada del Muerto
DM: That's near White Sands isn't it?'
JP: 'Right. It means 'Journey of the dead man' isn't that beautiful? The way we all move through our lives. Eyes closed, head down, shuffling along. Dead before our time, journeying toward the grave.
DM: That's where they tested the bomb
JP: yes (The faraway look again, eyes unfocused. Such a fertile ground for the working)
DM: Pardon? What's the working?
JO: The ritual. The working of Babylon. Calling forth the elemental
DM; Could you elaborate on that Jack?
(A car horn blared. I look outside, where an old Buick Roadmaster convertible has pulled up. A striking, technicolor red head is behind the wheel. Jack snaps back to himself, out of his freaky reverie, looks at his watch and smiles)
JP: Sorry that's the wife. We're supposed to go to the flea market today......."
So it's worth noting that Parson's mentions white sands, the site of the nuclear test, and Douglas Milford was also stationed there.
On P257 we are shown an image of 'The Devils gate, Arroyo Seco, Pasadena'
'This desolate patch is where Parsons and company used to test their fuels and shoot off rockets...'
On Page 258 we are shown a picture of the whore of Babylon
TP notes: "Alastair Crowley researched hell's gate as one of the seven gateways to hell and encouraged Parsons to 'Make use of it'. The tongva Indians called the spot hells gate because they believed it was literally a passage to the underworld. Parsons believed the explosive sciences would 'open up the gate'. Parsons rituals were 'An attempt to summon into human form the spirit of a figure central to the Thelema pantheon, the goddess Babylon, known as 'the mother of abominations'.
All of these entries seems to point to the fact the 'mother' heard by Agent Cooper in 'The Mauve Zone' as well as the alien in the box, and the terrifying creature seen birthing Bob during the nuclear explosion could well be this 'Mother of Abominations' which was summoned by L.Ron Hubbard, Alestair Crowley and Jack Parsons.
Then to tie this all back to the speculation about Lemurians. The Secret History elaborates that Hubbard's origin story of ancient aliens for his Scientology religion, regarding thetans colonising the earth in deep underground cities beneath volcanoes seems to owe a lot to Richard Shavers wild stories of the subterranean Lemurians.
So what does this all suggest?
That Twin Peaks mythology is a recruitment video for scientology?
Maybe.
Just a few more important notes from the Secret History as we begin to put the Black lodge mythology in the context of the White Lodge Mythology we see in Episode 8.
It seems quite interesting the way Marjorie Cameron is directly linked to the Twin Peaks mythology, representing both the 'Mother of abominations' which we see in various incarnations in 'The Return', the 'Whore of Babylon' - which Jack Parsons, Alestair Crowley and L.Ron Hubbard were trying to summon. She also plays the 'red head' which is important because Lana Budding is made out to be one of the incarnations of the 'red head/whore of babylon' figures in her role as jealous plaything of the brothers Dougie Milford and Dwayne Milford.
David Lynch has himself said of hair colour; that he 'prefers brunettes to blondes, but the red head is the wild card'. There has been a lot of speculation that we may see another incarnation of the red head in Season 3: The Return, some even believing Sheryl Lee may take up the role of a read headed doppleganger of Laura and Maddie. We'll have to wait and see in this regard.
All of these entries seems to point to the fact the 'mother' heard by Agent Cooper in 'The Mauve Zone' as well as the alien in the box, and the terrifying creature seen birthing Bob during the nuclear explosion could well be this 'Mother of Abominations' which was summoned by L.Ron Hubbard, Alestair Crowley and Jack Parsons.
Then to tie this all back to the speculation about Lemurians. The Secret History elaborates that Hubbard's origin story of ancient aliens for his Scientology religion, regarding thetans colonising the earth in deep underground cities beneath volcanoes seems to owe a lot to Richard Shavers wild stories of the subterranean Lemurians.
So what does this all suggest?
That Twin Peaks mythology is a recruitment video for scientology?
Maybe.
Just a few more important notes from the Secret History as we begin to put the Black lodge mythology in the context of the White Lodge Mythology we see in Episode 8.
It seems quite interesting the way Marjorie Cameron is directly linked to the Twin Peaks mythology, representing both the 'Mother of abominations' which we see in various incarnations in 'The Return', the 'Whore of Babylon' - which Jack Parsons, Alestair Crowley and L.Ron Hubbard were trying to summon. She also plays the 'red head' which is important because Lana Budding is made out to be one of the incarnations of the 'red head/whore of babylon' figures in her role as jealous plaything of the brothers Dougie Milford and Dwayne Milford.
Another thing which is noteworthy in regards to Marjorie Cameron in the Secret History of Twin Peaks is that she is waiting for Jack Parsons in a black Buick Roadmaster.
This car is evidently extremely important to the new series, and i've discussed it in depth in previous posts. But as a quick recap, the Buick Roadmaster is the car used by both Gordon Cole and his team;
It is also the car used by Mr C;
There is a bizarre parallel in these scenes, because Albert Rosenfield yells 'Car Sick' loudly as the Buick screeches to a halt, also Mr C vomits garmonbozia (Car sick) after crashing in his Buick Roadmaster. The car also seems to act as a portal to the black lodge via the electric cigarette lighter.
In 'the secret history of Twin Peaks' there is a receipt for purchase of a Buick Roadmaster which looks forged due to the 1's and I's - the car was apparently sold by 'Bob.J.Hart'. Which seems to link Bob and his corrupting of the Blue Rose agents via the Buick roadmaster. The book also mentions that these are the cars driven by the 'Men in black' who are tasked with covering up the Roswell incident and other paranormal phenomenon.
But why are Jack Parsons and Majorie Cameron driving the Buick Roadmaster? Is it just another reference like the Owl Cave ring being worn by Richard Nixon? Or does this suggest that either Marjorie or Jack Parsons or the 'Mother of Abominations' are manifested in the Buick's somehow? Or is the inference that Parsons is working for the government at this point?
One thing that is certain is that the ritual to summon the 'Mother of Abominations' allegedly happens immediately before the Roswell incident. Also Parson's himself believed that Marjorie Cameron was the maniifestation of the 'Whore of Babylon' working ritual.
This car is evidently extremely important to the new series, and i've discussed it in depth in previous posts. But as a quick recap, the Buick Roadmaster is the car used by both Gordon Cole and his team;
In 'the secret history of Twin Peaks' there is a receipt for purchase of a Buick Roadmaster which looks forged due to the 1's and I's - the car was apparently sold by 'Bob.J.Hart'. Which seems to link Bob and his corrupting of the Blue Rose agents via the Buick roadmaster. The book also mentions that these are the cars driven by the 'Men in black' who are tasked with covering up the Roswell incident and other paranormal phenomenon.
But why are Jack Parsons and Majorie Cameron driving the Buick Roadmaster? Is it just another reference like the Owl Cave ring being worn by Richard Nixon? Or does this suggest that either Marjorie or Jack Parsons or the 'Mother of Abominations' are manifested in the Buick's somehow? Or is the inference that Parsons is working for the government at this point?
One thing that is certain is that the ritual to summon the 'Mother of Abominations' allegedly happens immediately before the Roswell incident. Also Parson's himself believed that Marjorie Cameron was the maniifestation of the 'Whore of Babylon' working ritual.
If you're interested in my previous theories about the Buick Roadmaster and a myriad other theories relating to The Secret History of Twin Peaks, The Diary of Laura Palmer, My Life My Tapes, Season 1 and Two and The Return, check out my previous entries.
http://onechancetwinpeaks.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/after-purchasing-secret-history-of-twin.html
http://onechancetwinpeaks.blogspot.com.au/2017/01/im-writing-this-blog-for-anyone-else.html
http://onechancetwinpeaks.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/twin-peaks-season-3-has-finally-arrived.html
http://onechancetwinpeaks.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/in-continuing-analysis-of-twin-peaks.html
They are full of good speculation on TP as well as on some weird things that have happened in my own life. Those who have been following my blog i'll by updating details about my friend Mina who went missing recently and the cult I have been involved with who were fascinated with Marjorie Cameron, Alestair Crowley, Rosaleen Norton and various other occultists - i'll be detailing these events further in this post.
http://onechancetwinpeaks.blogspot.com.au/2017/01/im-writing-this-blog-for-anyone-else.html
http://onechancetwinpeaks.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/twin-peaks-season-3-has-finally-arrived.html
http://onechancetwinpeaks.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/in-continuing-analysis-of-twin-peaks.html
They are full of good speculation on TP as well as on some weird things that have happened in my own life. Those who have been following my blog i'll by updating details about my friend Mina who went missing recently and the cult I have been involved with who were fascinated with Marjorie Cameron, Alestair Crowley, Rosaleen Norton and various other occultists - i'll be detailing these events further in this post.
-The plutonium used in the construction of the nuclear bomb for the Trinity test (as seen in "Part 8") was manufactured at the Hanford Site, a nuclear facility in Washington state.
- "Within a year, the world’s first large-scale plutonium reactor was in service at Hanford, and by early 1945 shipments of enriched plutonium from the plant’s three reactors were being sent to Los Alamos every five days. This material would be used in the first atomic bomb testing."
- The Secret History of Twin Peaks (which includes a two-page photo spread of the Hanford Site on pages 118-119) mentions that that the land on which the Hanford Site was built was seized from the Nez Perce tribe in 1942 and that they were forcibly relocated (which, again, is actually true).
- An obvious connection to season 3 is that Hawk is a "full-blooded" Nez Perce and the way he discovered the missing pages of Laura Palmer's diary was through the Nez Perce logo in "Part 6".
But The Secret History mentions that when the Nez Perce were originally removed from their land in the 19th century, Chief Joseph warned one day there would "come a reckoning." Perhaps the bomb (or, more accurately, BOB and the Lodge coming through/from the bomb) was this prophecy coming true, and BOB/the Lodge's malevolent influence on the town was the "reckoning" mentioned by Chief Joseph?
-It's also worth noting that the Archivist concludes Harold Dahl's 1947 UFO encounter (which kickstarted the popular "alien" phenomena and UFOlogy) wasn't a UFO at all. It was instead the US Air Force dumping nuclear waste from the Hanford Site into the nearby Columbia River and the local environment, which would have included the nearby Twin Peaks. The town of Twin Peaks again suffers (indirectly) from the Trinity test.
-But the most interesting thing of all is exactly where Hanford is located. Its geographical co-ordinates are 46°35′01″N 119°23′16W. Cooper's doppelganger is looking for co-ordinates from Ray, and ??????? (The Giant) tells Cooper to "remember 430" — not four-hundred-and-thirty, but specifically "four-three-zero".
-Also curious is the fact that the degree of longitude Hanford is on is "119", the number Drugged-Out Mother has shouted several times in two separate episodes. And, the Hanford Site photo is on page 119.
-It could be that the "430" and "119" co-ordinates are bit of a stretch (even by Twin Peaks standards), but an interesting coincidence nevertheless.
-There's also the name of Sheriff Harry S. Truman. Harry Truman was president at the time of the nuclear tests.
Now that we've looked at the black lodge mythology presented in this episode, and possible the origins of the birth of Bob. Let's look at some of the white lodge mythology introduced, and quite probably --- what we witness -- the birth of Laura Palmer? The Moonchild? Chosen one/redemptive Christ-like figure of the Twin Peaks mythology. Her death we come to understand may have been a necessary sacrifice to win the battle for earth in a war between two alien species?
Who said the space opera narrative was a pipe dream that would never make mainstream television?
Alright. So let's begin with the obvious kick off to the White lodge mythos in this episode. We are re-introduced to the 'Mauve zone' (Which some have speculated could be linked to the writings of Kenneth Grant. Given surrounding speculation about Crowley, Parsons, Cameron and thus Kenneth Anger - this doesn't seem like too much of a stretch)
Our previous encounter with the Mauve Zone was Agent Cooper (The good agent Cooper/prior Cooper/Dougie) who landed in this strange space vault/spaceship after being saved from 'Non Existence'.
There is obvious repeat imagery here. This kind of bell shaped device, which seems to be part of a space ship or space station that some of these entities inhabit. If the eyeless woman does indeed turn out to be Josie or Judy (As some suspect) Then this place would be intrinsically linked to the Great Northern Hotel. This would make sense for numerous reasons. The giant, who we now know comes from a space ship in the Mauve zone (Perhaps the race of aliens from the pleiades?) The giant also manifests as the old man waiter at the Great Northern Hotel (Senior Droolcup as he is affectionately known). However giants also appear in The Secret History of Twin Peaks as a race coming from Wales who inhabit the region, and they are also linked to Gladstonbury grove by various sightings by Andrew Packard, Douglas Milford and others.
So anyway, The Giant is linked to the great Northern. The sockets Agent Cooper travels through '3' '15' (The number of his room key at the great northern) also link this space with that hotel. The fact that there is a huge purple ocean could tie to the waterfall and river near the great northern which features in the opening title sequence. Perhaps in some ways this represents the Pacific Ocean and the water which runs from Twin Peaks to the sea.
In the mythos of H.P Lovecraft the Pacific ocean is the home of the evil entity 'Cthulu'. Some of these purple scenes have a very Lovecraftian feel, as does the 'evolution of the arm' alien.
Some have also noted that these strange electrical devices are reminiscent of electrical transistors which have also become a stable part of the new mythology. Lodge spirits are known to teleport or transport via electricity.
Body parts are something I will discuss in more detail later. But just quickly on the subject, it seems that the Mauve zone is intrinsically linked to the space of the head --- and in the Return the head is personified in the person of Major Briggs, who's decapitated body turns up in Buckhorn South Dakota, and who's head is seen flying through space.
I don't have much to expand on this now, but later I will analyse the meaning of these body parts, such as the arm - which is linked to Phillip Gerard and the waiting room - and the alien tree and thus the nuclear explosion, as well as the Nez Perce. Then of course the ring finger which has a lot of meaning in this series. But just to pinpoint the Mauve room as the zone of the head for now, and return to that later.
Now we see, he has a rather mundane existence, with his (wife?) on this spaceship. It seems by the fact that he is called by an alarm at the nuclear explosion and watches it with interest on a viewing screen - that this could be setting up the popular mythology that aliens came to visit earth after the nuclear bomb was dropped as they were worried about humanities role in the solar system.
This also sets them up as the benevolent race of aliens who sometimes intervene in human affairs to affect them positively.
Before analysing the possible role of Laura Palmer as the 'moonchild' /saviour of Twin Peaks, I think it may help to look at some of the entries regarding giants in The Secret History of Twin Peaks
In page 75 we have the scout story of Andrew Packard where he describes his visions in the woods;
''We saw lightning fire up the dark sky....... As I looked up, in the flash of the strike I caught a glimpse of someone standing at the edge of the tree line, not far from where the bolt had scorched the fir and briefly set it aflame. The figure appeared to be a man, although the image quickly vanished. He looked extremely tall, at least seven feet by estimate. I did not notice what he was wearing but in the darkness it didn't really register. What I remember most is that the figure was looking directly at me. His eyes possessed a peculiar intensity, as if lit from within. He didn't seem even the slightest bit startled by the lightning, which had struck much closer to him than me, ... The tall fir beside him, which had caught fire before being doused by the rain, illuminated him for a moment longer and in that moment I saw the man turn and vanish into the woods behind him.'
There's another note here which isn't linked to the Giant, but I want to discuss more later;
'Andrew was by all accounts considered an upstanding individual. He would later serve for decades as president of the Packard family business, and take many prominent roles in community organisations, including the Rotary, the Chamber of Commerce, the Optimists Club, the Elk Lodge, and - interestingly- the local Masonic lodge.'
Considering the links to 'the owls' and the illuminati/freemasons and the 'black lodge' I feel like the fact that Andrew Packard went to gladstonbury grove and saw the giant is something i'd like to discuss more later.
There's another note here which isn't linked to the Giant, but I want to discuss more later;
'Andrew was by all accounts considered an upstanding individual. He would later serve for decades as president of the Packard family business, and take many prominent roles in community organisations, including the Rotary, the Chamber of Commerce, the Optimists Club, the Elk Lodge, and - interestingly- the local Masonic lodge.'
Considering the links to 'the owls' and the illuminati/freemasons and the 'black lodge' I feel like the fact that Andrew Packard went to gladstonbury grove and saw the giant is something i'd like to discuss more later.
There is also something in The Secret History of Twin Peaks which is profoundly more interesting now that the entire 'Return' is focussed around the pages of Laura's diary.
On page 75 of 'The secret history' we are given a page of the 'Private diary entry of Andrew Packard'
On page 75 of 'The secret history' we are given a page of the 'Private diary entry of Andrew Packard'
"The following excerpt was discovered among the personal papers of Andrew Packard, following his first "death" in 1987. This correspondent can verify, from personal experience of this individual, that the handwritten section across the top of the page was penned by Packard himself."
'Dear Diary. This is the section of my Story that they left out of the printed edition in the Gazette. They told me at the time that they ran out of Space, but I think it probably had a whole lot more to do with the fact that Douglas Milford was, at the time, living in sin with Pauline Cuyo, the estranged daughter of the owner of the gazette.'
I think it's intriguing that emphasis is being put on Andrew Packards diary, especially given that we know Andrew Packard stayed at 'A cabin out in Pearl Lakes' during his mysterious fake death and absence. 'Pearl lakes' is where Leland says he first encountered Bob, and it's also worth noting that Andrew Packard is presented as the elder to Douglas Milford who becomes extremely important. Here is something significant from the subsequent attached part of Andrew's journal;
I think it's intriguing that emphasis is being put on Andrew Packards diary, especially given that we know Andrew Packard stayed at 'A cabin out in Pearl Lakes' during his mysterious fake death and absence. 'Pearl lakes' is where Leland says he first encountered Bob, and it's also worth noting that Andrew Packard is presented as the elder to Douglas Milford who becomes extremely important. Here is something significant from the subsequent attached part of Andrew's journal;
'Scoutmaster Milford, looking off into the woods, now told me a story about a camping trip his younger brother Douglas had taken in the same location six months ago.'Earlier that year, Douglas came back from said camping trip with a wild story about having encountered what he called a "giant" in the forest. Given that Douglas had always been prone to "fanciful and chronic exaggeration," this latest example of a "tall tale" was discounted by Dwayne and everyone else."
"That provoked greater protestations from Douglas, including an even more outlandish claim that on the same trip he'd also come across a "walking owl" that he told Dwayne was 'nearly as tall as a man'."
"Douglas would sometimes vanish from home for days. Dwayne believed his brother might have been sneaking up to these woods again."
What exactly was Dougie doing up in those woods then? Was he visiting the black lodge?
Also why did he feel the need to keep the information hidden from the public, was he trying to cover up his links to the black lodge?
Should we make any significance that Dougie's fingerprints appear in The Secret History of Twin Peaks? Given the importance of fingerprints in the investigation of Cooper's doppleganger, and the fact that Dougie drives A Buick Roadmaster, linking him to Bob, Mr C, Cole, Jeffries, Earle and the other Blue rose agents. We also know that Dougie was on assignment and passed over his duties to Major Briggs who subsequently wound up dead. Then there is the fact that Douglas Milford wears the owl cave ring on his death bed. Is Milford linked to Dougie Jones? Who also wears the owl cave ring?
So before we get back to the Episode 8 White Lodge stuff. Here's just a few more notes about Douglas Milford...
On page 78 of The Secret History of Twin Peaks we are given these descriptions;
On page 78 of The Secret History of Twin Peaks we are given these descriptions;
"Douglas left Twin Peaks after the crash of '29 when the Depression hit, riding the rails, drifting from city to city, a man without a home, a family or an apparent purpose, a not uncommon fate for the rootless during that dire decade of the 1930's. Little is heard from Douglas until he next turns up in San Francisco, where he enlisted in the Army the day after Pearl Harbour in 1941. He spent the war years in a quartermaster's brigade in the Army Air Corps, island hopping across the pacific as the allies turned back the tide against the Japanese........
...After vanishing from the ranks in the Pacific, he next turns up as a buck private in Alamogordo, New Mexico, at the White Sands Missile Range in 1945"
TP then NOTES 'White Sands was the site of the first atomic bomb testing in the late stages of WWII' - of course we recognise this from EPISODE 8 -
July 16, 1945, White Sands, New Mexico 5:29 AM
So if Milford was at White Sands does this link him with the 'Woodsmen'? The black lodge and the convenience store?
July 16, 1945, White Sands, New Mexico 5:29 AM
So if Milford was at White Sands does this link him with the 'Woodsmen'? The black lodge and the convenience store?
Conclusions: Milford was at White sands, and near the convenience store when the lodge was created.
Milford later saw a UFO and was stationed at Roswell (From an interview on page 84)
"DOUGLAS MILFORD : ...This isn't the first time i've seen something like this."
Archivist' the transcipt stops there leaving us to wonder what Milford was refering to here-- the incident at Pearl lakes, perhaps?'
On Page 94 we are given these details;
'Fred Lee Crisman. He brought with him and showed to Crisman a number of the metallic fragments he found on board his ship that he'd collected inside a large Kellog's corn flakes box.
'Fred Lee Crisman. He brought with him and showed to Crisman a number of the metallic fragments he found on board his ship that he'd collected inside a large Kellog's corn flakes box.
'Fred Lee crisman took possession that day of the metallic and rock fragments from Dahl. Dahl's son was treated that afternoon for second degree burns to his right arm.'
What is this mysterious material described numerous times in The Secret History? Could be the gold rock which comes from the giant?
On page 113 we are given more description of the rock
'Although the rock was found to be common slag, the other metallic substance cannot be explained by any mettalurgist. It does not exist naturally on Earth, nor can it be duplicated. The two mystery ingredients are calci8um, which in this concentration would offer protection against radioactive material by absorbing radium, and titanium.'
In another “Twin Peaks” netherworld, a woman listens to distorted passages of old-timey jazz on a loop until an alarming sound summons the Lodge’s Giant, who then ambles into a screening room to watch the White Sands test. When he gets to the part with the face of evil, he pauses the film and floats up to the ceiling, where a golden glow begins emanating from his head. The woman wanders in and watches that glow form into a ball, which contains the face of Laura Palmer. She kisses it and sends in through a tube, before it drifts to Earth.
It seems worth noting that the theatre depicted in this scene is the same one from Club Silencio in Mulholland drive. I'll do a full analysis of the influences in these scenes shortly.
So what do we really make of this Gold ball with Laura Palmer inside it, and the woman? Is she of the same benevolent species as the giant? Or is there supposed to be a more subconscious narrative here. Do the giant and the woman represent god, or the father and mother figure of humanity. Do they represent goodness itself somehow?
They could simply be archetypes of the white lodge. But the significance of Bob and Laura Palmer pitted in a battle of good versus evil, seems to be given particular importance.
Senorita Dido and ????? create a golden orb that has Laura’s face in it. This is a direct response to seeing 'The Mother of abominations' birth BOB as well as a multitude of other Black Lodge spirits.
We must assume that this vomiting event, in the aftermath of the nuclear explosion, is the first time that BOB is unleashed to the world. Then, in response to seeing this ultimate evil begin let out into the world, Senorita Dido and ?????, who seem to be benevolent spirits in either the White Lodge or the waiting room for the White Lodge, feel the need to create something in response. They then create Laura Palmer directly from ?????’s essence. Senorita Dido sends Laura out into the world, but not before joyfully giving her a kiss. She’s clearly sending Laura off with love.
I find some parallels to the Greek myths here. We have previously encountered Saturn as a planet appearing in the Twin Peaks lore. In Greek Mythology Saturn was part of a race of giants or 'Titans' who were overthrown by the younger Olympian gods. In giant conspiracies, the Titans as well as other giants in Hindu, Christian theology are presented as the birthing species to man.
Echidna also seems to be a parallel figure to this 'Mother of Abominations'. In Greek myth Echidna gave birth to all of the other monsters including gorgons, cyclops, and sea monsters.
Some may assume that Laura’s golden ball becomes the egg that the frog/moth creature emerges from.
Others have mentioned that that creature does have significance in the lore of TP, and that it’s some kind of Native American creature. That frog creature then enters the body of a young girl. Some have speculated that that girl is Sarah Palmer. This would create a kind of christian parallel to the Virgin Mary story which I will discuss more shortly.
Some people see a parallel between the frog-bug creature and the Metis/Zeus/Athena myth.
There is another coin in this scene, which is a recurring motif and immediately makes us think of Jack Parsons, Red (Balthasar Getty), The Chalfont grandson and Hawk discovering the diary clue.
If the girl is indeed Sarah Palmer she is somehow chosen as special by the benevolent aliens of the white lodge, and that is why this frog decides to implant Laura in her. We know that Sarah Palmer can see BOB and the horse, and that doesn’t kill her or physically hurt her. So it would in part explain Sarah Palmer's apparent psychic powers.
It also seems that the whole “This is the water, this is the well” thing over the radio doesn’t seem to affect this girl like it does the other residents of the town. She kind of peacefully lays down and falls asleep instead of violently falling to the ground like everyone else does. Sarah Palmer’s clairvoyance/presence/abilities make her the perfect host for the essence of Laura, a savior. Perhaps in the same way in Christian belief that Mary is born without original sin so she can be a proper host for Jesus, who would otherwise kill her from the inside out .
Laura isn’t presented as the epitome of purity and goodness in the original series. But there are aspects of Laura which are pure and good. She runs meals on wheels, she’s a good student, she tutors Johnny Horne, etc. And one might argue that all that she does that’s "bad" is a direct result of her abuse at the hands of her father/BOB.
So perhaps the corrupted aspect of Laura is Bob and the Mother of abominations influence. Or perhaps there is more to it than this. We simply don't know yet.
Others have mentioned that that creature does have significance in the lore of TP, and that it’s some kind of Native American creature. That frog creature then enters the body of a young girl. Some have speculated that that girl is Sarah Palmer. This would create a kind of christian parallel to the Virgin Mary story which I will discuss more shortly.
THE GIRL AND THE LOCUST
At least one of those New Mexicans, a character only listed as “Girl,” then becomes a host for the locust/frog which crawls in through the young girl’s window in the same manner as a BOB-infected Leland did in Fire Walk with Me. Who could this girl be? Grace Zabriskie, the actress who plays Laura Palmer’s mother, Sarah, was born in 1941. A Twin Peaks wiki (without any sourcing) lists Sarah Palmer’s DOB as 1945 (the same year as BOB). So Sarah could perhaps be the same age as this girl (11 or 15) in 1956.
It's hard to tell if this reverse Virgin Mary story is the birth of good or evil? In any case it may turn out to be completely unrelated to the Laura Palmer story, or at least not related to Bob's possession of Laura.
Metis was one of the Titans, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys; therefore, she was considered an Oceanid. She was the first wife of Zeus, and became the goddess of wisdom, prudence and deep thought.
According to a prophecy, Metis would bear two children, the first being Athena, while the second one, a son, would be so powerful that would overthrow Zeus. Zeus, afraid of this, tricked Metis into turning herself into a fly, and swallowed her. However, Metis was already pregnant to Athena, and, inside Zeus' stomach, she started creating a helmet for her daughter. Zeus was in such pain that he asked Hephaestus to hit his head with an axe; as soon as his head was opened, Athena jumped out fully grown and clad in armour. It is often said that Athena had no mother and she was born out of Zeus alone; this doesn't necessarily conflict with this account, as the ancient Greeks believed that children were descendants of the fathers, while mothers did not contribute to the creation of their children.
If the girl is indeed Sarah Palmer she is somehow chosen as special by the benevolent aliens of the white lodge, and that is why this frog decides to implant Laura in her. We know that Sarah Palmer can see BOB and the horse, and that doesn’t kill her or physically hurt her. So it would in part explain Sarah Palmer's apparent psychic powers.
It also seems that the whole “This is the water, this is the well” thing over the radio doesn’t seem to affect this girl like it does the other residents of the town. She kind of peacefully lays down and falls asleep instead of violently falling to the ground like everyone else does. Sarah Palmer’s clairvoyance/presence/abilities make her the perfect host for the essence of Laura, a savior. Perhaps in the same way in Christian belief that Mary is born without original sin so she can be a proper host for Jesus, who would otherwise kill her from the inside out .
Laura isn’t presented as the epitome of purity and goodness in the original series. But there are aspects of Laura which are pure and good. She runs meals on wheels, she’s a good student, she tutors Johnny Horne, etc. And one might argue that all that she does that’s "bad" is a direct result of her abuse at the hands of her father/BOB.So perhaps the corrupted aspect of Laura is Bob and the Mother of abominations influence. Or perhaps there is more to it than this. We simply don't know yet.
Laura is almost fired to earth through a musical instrument, which fits with the old statements 'Where were from the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air.'
The theory of a battle of good verse evil certainly has weight.
Laura is, even from the grave, battling BOB. She writes about the Good Agent Cooper in her diary. She comes to Coop erin a dream and reveals who killed her. Even from the grave and the Red Room Laura has an other-worldly ability to interfere with events on earth and help protect people against BOB/the Black Lodge.
Early in S3, Laura literally peels her face off and reveals that below her face is pure light. Perhaps this means that Laura is certainly a divine entity, and she is literally emanating light from the inside out. At the end of FWWM, Laura cries tears of joy as she is bathed in light from the angel. This clearly links Laura with images of divinity, purity, and light. After Laura whispers to Dale for the second time, she is sucked up to some unknown place. I wonder if that was because of ????? and Senorita Dido. Perhaps they decided it was her time to return to Earth to fix what she couldn’t before, or she is being sent to the White Lodge. Leland, in the Red Room, then distressingly tells Coop to “Find Laura”. I don’t think that this was because he was concerned for her, but concerned for Cooper and the world. Cooper needs to find Laura because Laura is the only person who can defeat BOB and save the world from him. She was created for that sole purpose. This also explains the fact that ????? directly interferes with Coop’s investigation into Laura’s death.
There is also the possibility that Laura is the mysterious 'moon child' mentioned by Jack Parsons and apparently summoned by Parsons and Hubbard from some of Crowley's notes.
Laura is, even from the grave, battling BOB. She writes about the Good Agent Cooper in her diary. She comes to Coop erin a dream and reveals who killed her. Even from the grave and the Red Room Laura has an other-worldly ability to interfere with events on earth and help protect people against BOB/the Black Lodge.
Early in S3, Laura literally peels her face off and reveals that below her face is pure light. Perhaps this means that Laura is certainly a divine entity, and she is literally emanating light from the inside out. At the end of FWWM, Laura cries tears of joy as she is bathed in light from the angel. This clearly links Laura with images of divinity, purity, and light. After Laura whispers to Dale for the second time, she is sucked up to some unknown place. I wonder if that was because of ????? and Senorita Dido. Perhaps they decided it was her time to return to Earth to fix what she couldn’t before, or she is being sent to the White Lodge. Leland, in the Red Room, then distressingly tells Coop to “Find Laura”. I don’t think that this was because he was concerned for her, but concerned for Cooper and the world. Cooper needs to find Laura because Laura is the only person who can defeat BOB and save the world from him. She was created for that sole purpose. This also explains the fact that ????? directly interferes with Coop’s investigation into Laura’s death.
I think it could help to put this whole episode in context by analysing Episode 8 in terms of it's influences. It seems pretty obvious that David Lynch is using 'The Return' as his magnum Opus, making numerous references and homages to his own work, as well as those who influenced him.
There’s nothing to point to in the history of television that helps describe exactly what this episode attempts. Not even the jarring nightmare sequences from the original series were anything like this hour, which jumps around in time and space in ways that at times seem almost like free association.
There’s nothing to point to in the history of television that helps describe exactly what this episode attempts. Not even the jarring nightmare sequences from the original series were anything like this hour, which jumps around in time and space in ways that at times seem almost like free association.
Obviously reminiscent of Lynch’s earlier work such as Eraserhead
Lynch has made prior references to the works of Terrence Malick, and the slow exposition of the bomb has resonances of 'The Tree of life' but with a consuming darkness and oblivion instead of a hopeful, spiritual tone.
(The music during the atom bomb explosion is Penderecki's “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.”)
The star gate sequence from 2001: A Space Oddyssey seems particularly influential here:
Perhaps it's also of interest that Arthur.C.Clarke who wrote '2001- A Space Oddyssey' originally wrote about the creation of a so called 'Moon Child' which resonates with Alestair Crowley's work of the same name, and Jack Parsons and other elements of The Secret History
As an aside note, Arthur C Clarke was highly influenced by H.P Lovecraft, and wrote a parody of his 'At the mountains of Madness' called 'At the mountains of murkiness'. In this work Clarke played with lovecraftian themes, such as the black monoliths utilised in the cities of the elder gods, so it's quite probable that his monolith was in part taken from Lovecraft.
Some fans of more modern cinema might think of Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin,” which similarly uses dissonant sound design and “What the hell am I looking at?” imagery to present the world from the perspective of an alien.
(The opening sequence of "Under the Skin");
Lynch borrowed from nearly every avant-garde genre from dadaism to impressionism and did so masterfully and created a truly stunning and terrifying visual and aural experience.
It was like Kubrick, Fellini, Bill Morrison, Man Ray, Luis Bunel and Salvador Dali all wrapped into one.
With the advent of the 'moonchild' or anti-Mary girl figure swallowing the bug, in league with the Secret History of Twin Peaks 'Mother of abominations' and 'Whore of Babylon' stuff, I was reminded of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' and the woman who brings a city to it's knees motif.
Twin Peaks was always a bizarre genre mash up, mixing many different of Lynch's influences from Hitchcock, to the soap genre, to the Wizard of OZ.
So, A bit over a month ago, a close friend of mine Mina, disappeared off social media, and for all accounts and purposes can be tracked by anyone. I went to her house, and nobody had seen her (She lives alone). But one of her neighbours did comment that a man with a 'worn face' had been around to her house recently, also i'm sure I saw a strange Korean guy stalking her, not long before she dissapeared. I found out his name was Kim Seung and got his address.
Naturally I took the day off work and went out there to scope it out. It was an old warehouse which looked kind of abandoned. All the windows were smashed out. I managed to climb into one of the back windows, cut my arm up really badly from glass. Probably should have gone to the hospital to get stitches because it looks infected now.
"Kirk Silverman knows what the symbols mean.'
Hell it wasn't a lot to go on, but I knew for a fact I had to find out who the hell this Kirk Silverman was.
I wasn't so sure.
Under the listed names of patrons and directors on one of the boards I saw the name 'Kirk Silverman'.
Whoever it was, it HAD to be the guy Mina had written about her note. It means she must have been the one who had the flyers, in her bag I guess. She must have been looking into it herself.
I guess I just wanted to make the point that influence is important to this Episode, because it gives what we have an extra value. Whatever you may think about the Laura Palmer redeemer angle which Lynch seems to be exploring, at the very least you have to be awed by the sheer scope of this thing. It's range is just so broad. To have a 90's series, which already paid homage to the past, then to return 25 years later, with these homages to the entire history of cinema is pretty amazing.
Lynch has described season 3: The Return as an 18 hour movie.
Meanwhile Mark Frost has described his contribution to the script as like writing an enormous novel, tie that in with the audiotapes, the epistolary elements like Laura's diary and the woven mesh of interconnected things and you've got to admit the scope of this thing is just awestriking.
Sometimes you wonder if instead of making a novel and an 18 hour movie, if they couldn't have somehow integrated better and just made 18hours of gripping, engaging television. Oh well....
I laughed pretty hard when somebody said that the end of Episode 8 made them feel like this MR PLOW COMMERCIAL
So i'll just wind up Episode 8 by talking a little bit about:
THE WOODSMAN and THE CONVENIENCE STORE
The woodsman is played by Robert Broski, a known Lincoln impersonator.
And it's worth noting that the Actor Stewart Strauss who played one of the earlier woodsman characters had a lot to say about the roles. Apparently this may be all we see of these woodsmen now, so we can make of that what we will.
It's hard to know wether the convenience store scene we see in Episode 8, is indeed the same convenience store where Bob and the other nefarious 'Dugpa' had their secret meetings attended by Phillip Jeffries in Fire Walk with me.... The fact that the old meeting place was always meant to be 'Above a convenience store' and the convenience store we see in Episode 8 clearly has only one floor puts a bit of a damper on the idea. The blacked out windows certainly resonate with the nuclear waste and the windows in the new convenience store.
And it's worth noting that the Actor Stewart Strauss who played one of the earlier woodsman characters had a lot to say about the roles. Apparently this may be all we see of these woodsmen now, so we can make of that what we will.
It's hard to know wether the convenience store scene we see in Episode 8, is indeed the same convenience store where Bob and the other nefarious 'Dugpa' had their secret meetings attended by Phillip Jeffries in Fire Walk with me.... The fact that the old meeting place was always meant to be 'Above a convenience store' and the convenience store we see in Episode 8 clearly has only one floor puts a bit of a damper on the idea. The blacked out windows certainly resonate with the nuclear waste and the windows in the new convenience store.
Perhaps the second level is in a different dimension to the lower level which is inhabited by 'The Woodsman'. We don't yet know exactly what the link between the woodsman, the Lemurians, The Dugpa and Bob is - although they certainly all seem to be working for the same team.
Another problem with the convenience store paralels is that Phillip Jeffries said that the convenience store was located in Seattle.
Of course one possible solution to this is that there's more then one convenience store which they appear at. There is pain and sorrow everywhere and one notable pattern to all the towns prsented thus far. They all are equipped with a old school Diner, Bar and Police Station. Going all the way back to FWWM there was parallels between the two affected towns.
The dark side of the bright American landscape has always been a Lynchian theme, and this could well be viewed as Lynch contrasting the nostalgia of the old show, diners, rock and roll and waitress uniforms with homelessness, violence, warfare and nuclear destruction, saying 'Hey. It's not all donuts, coffee, choclates and roses' here's the seedy side to this enduring narrative.'
There's a lot of speculation over what the poem might mean, wether its about nuclear contamination as described in 'The Secret History' -- Is the water the strange purple ocean? Is the white horse from Laura Palmer's vision 'The White of the eyes'.
Some have made comparisons between the 'Gotta light?' statement and other characters in Twin Peaks. Some silly:
At Mr C's death, the woodsmen perform a ritual blood bath and seem to extract Bob. Or perhaps curing him? When the egg hatches, the woodsmen appear to say a chant and do a bit more blood sacrifice. So they look like psychopomps or ghouls to the black lodge mythology.
It's interesting is that one of them keeps loitering around Brigg's body.
He seems to have been attached to the headless Briggs since the arrest of Mr Hastings.
In the case of these other woodsmen, they seem to do their duty and leave. So I wonder why he is loitering around Brigg's corpse except that Brigg's must possess something from visiting the White Lodge that allows him to time travel and this guy could be anchored there until the head is recovered because he is after that item or whatever that is. Who knows?
Ok. That's enough speculation about the mythology of the Black and White lodges, the moon child and Laura the saviour. I think we're going to have to wait and see on that front.
But let's return to the central mysteries of the show. Focus on the donut not on the hole.
But let's return to the central mysteries of the show. Focus on the donut not on the hole.
For me the hole in this episode comes in the form of the Roadhouse. So let's work around that issue, by analysing what is attached to the roadhouse, the scenes which connect and what the significance of it all could be.
THE ROADHOUSE
So we are dropped out of our linear narrative by an introduction of Nine Inch nails by a character who looks something like Jimmy Scott. An apparent inhabitant of the black lodge who we last saw in the season finale of Twin Peaks, singing 'Sycamore trees' as special agent Dale Cooper faced the annhilation of his soul.
This time we have Nine Inch Nails singing “She’s Gone Away.”
This Season the roadhouse has acted as a kind of location that's not a location. A very strange and jarring choice from the creators, which we can only assume has some higher purpose to it. Each week somebody performs at the roadhouse, in two cases so far, plot has actually been tied to the scenes within the roadhouse, and the other times it has merely been a music insert, much like the bands who performed in the classic series 'The Young Ones'. A kind of musical interlude.
The week before in Episode 7, we had a very interesting moment in the roadhouse. After a solid stretch of coherent plot, where each scene led directly into the next one, we were transferred suddenly to a ten minute scene of somebody sweeping the floor. Of course the scene was enjoyably confounding. But after waiting for a long time, the scene finally proved its relevance by an extremely seedy conversation from the new Renault brother - Jean Michel.
The conversation showed us two things - one that the Renault family has owned the roadhouse for all these years, and something we may have expected that the roadhouse was more involved in the sex trafficking of teenage girls than was ever exposed in season one and two.
'He owes me for two' says Jean Michel Renault, discussing two sex trafficked girls who were as young as 14 who he refers to both as 'Straight A students' and 'Straight A whores'.
The scene suggests more than we might at first think. The second thing this scene suggests, almost in a wink from Frost and Lynch, after the ardous sweeping scene, being granted this plot development is kind of like saying 'Your patience will be rewarded' and also that the mystery centres around the roadhouse.
The scene suggests more than we might at first think. The second thing this scene suggests, almost in a wink from Frost and Lynch, after the ardous sweeping scene, being granted this plot development is kind of like saying 'Your patience will be rewarded' and also that the mystery centres around the roadhouse.
Now we are being asked to re-evaluate everything we learned here, and this suggests that the Renault's had a lot more to do with the sex trafficking than we thought. This seems to fit well with the events of Fire Walk With Me, as Jaques Renault gives Laura some customers, but we will discuss this more soon.
The Renault's have always had a little bit of an operation going in Twin Peaks, and the revelation of this fact heralds back to that moment when the younger Renault warns off Jaques by flashing the red light at the Roadhouse, to let him know the police are looking for him.
One very significant thing which happened in the roadhouse in the original run, and which has a deep connection to episode 8, is that the Giant appears to agent Cooper on the evening that Madeline Ferguson is about to be killed. Could the roadhouse be a kind of convergence where black and white lodge forces compete for power? The NIN performances certainly felt more like a black lodge moment, than a white one.
In the Leland reveal episode, the log lady turns up at the Sherrif station and says to Cooper:
‘We don’t know what will happen or when - but there are owls in the roadhouse’
Cooper replies: ‘Something is happening isn’t it Margaret’
To which Margaret replies: ‘Yes’
So who are these mysterious owls? Are they the Renault brothers?
Now it's interesting, that this scene, and the feeling everyone has here, which has echoes of the sadness felt over Laura's death also has parallels to Laura's downfall, where she falls into sex and drug addiction at the roadhouse:
Then we are transported from the Roadhouse to the notorious 'Pink Room' a place we are yet to see in the return.
Perhaps you may ask, why speculate on any of this? What does sex trafficking have to do with the new season anyway, and I have some strong theories about this, which I will continue to analyse.
This echoes an earlier significant scene in the Roadhouse, on Leland Palmer's trail, which is held beneath the red drapes.
Ok. Now. Let's look at the scenes which surround the cuts to the Roadhouse in the new season and what the significance of The Roadhouse is in these contexts. In Episode 8 we had Evil Cooper being killed and attacked by the Woodsmen. In episode 7 we cut from the roadhouse back to Evil Cooper escaping from jail.
I feel like it's important to note that Norma is in almost identical position in this scene as she is in an earlier episode when Becky enters the RR Diner.
Alright, now. Let's talk about Shelley's daughter Becky:
We see these scenes of Norma and Shelley worrying about Becky, after Stephen fails to get his job interview. We assume from these scenes that everybody is worried about Becky because she has no money and because Stephen is not a good partner.
However, in an earlier episode, when Shelley is in the roadhouse with her friends discussing it, one of her girlfriends notes 'Everybody loves Stephen'
To which Shelley replies 'You don't know Becky. There is something really wrong with her.'
And her friend replies 'It's her life. She can do what she wants with it.'
This dialogue may seem unimportant, but what if it is actually a vital clue to what's really going on. Maybe Stephen isn't the problem with Becky, we just assume it is. But given that Becky has clear parallels with Laura, (Such as her cocaine habit). What if Becky's problem has to do with prositution or Bob? Perhaps Becky has been pulled into the Renault/Richard Horne web herself, gotten way too deep in something.
Of course the irony of the scene that follows is that Shelley clearly has some thing going with 'Red' who we know is a much more sinister character than Stephen. He may be responsible for half the drug trafficking in Twin Peaks. It's no accident that Jean Michel Renault is behind him in this scene either. Not only is this a direct flash back to the scene in Fire Walk with Me where Laura is sold off by Jaques and taken to the pink room-- even the way Red signals from the bar. But also given the Renaults involvement in the drug trade, wouldn't it be logical to draw conclusions about the relationships between Red, Jean Michel Renault, Richard Horne and Deputy Chad? There's a pretty good chance they are all colluding on the transfer of 'Spark' and maybe even the prostitution of teenage girls from Twin Peaks High School.
What's really going on with Richard Horne in these scenes?
Does this natural tendency to sexual violence towards women suggest that his character is simply flawed? Or is it more likely the way he treats these innocent looking girls that his sexual experience with women could be one that has him fairly used to sexual exploitation. It seems likely to me that Richard Horne is himself either practicing or working in the sexual exploitation racket.
Some still theorise that poor Becky Briggs may still wind up tragically wrapped in plastic. But we'll have to wait and see on this one.
I think it's pretty obvious to make a connection between the slow growing music in this series, the live performances at the roadhouse, and the silent gramaphone played by the giant in Episode 1.
In Episode 8 we are privvy to a flashback of the giant, when the gramaphone was still playing music, and there was 'always music in the air.'
But now, before I draw some broader conclusions, it's time to look in depth at Episode 7: 'There's a body alright'.
It makes sense, whilst on the theme of audio, to take a look at some odd sounds that people have noticed in Episode 7
For one, the credits seem to have another layer of audio underneath the Sleepwalk song...
Which many have speculated is 'Windom Earle's theme' from the original series. You can hear it here:
Which many have speculated is 'Windom Earle's theme' from the original series. You can hear it here:
Also when Mr C escapes from jail there is a weird piece of slowed down audio
When you speed it up you can clearly hear it say "something big";
When you speed it up you can clearly hear it say "something big";
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0MhchD4o2q5
Is it something big? Or something irrelevant? I can't answer that right now.
Is it something big? Or something irrelevant? I can't answer that right now.
Episode 7 opens with Jerry unable to find his car in the same episode where Dougie and Janey-E find out what happens to their car.
Jerry screams 'I think I'm high! I don't know where I am' in a scene that both disorientates the viewer, and makes them laugh along with a series that has done just about everything to make the viewer feel much like this.
Did Richard steal his car?
It's also reminiscent of passages in The Secret History of Twin Peaks where Dr Jacoby describes experiences on peyote and ahuasca.
But the main event in Twin Peaks this episode is the letter Deputy Hawk’s found in the bathroom stall door at the station. Bingo, it’s from Laura Palmer. Clearly, this is the missing thing referenced by the Log Lady. He shows the letter to Sheriff Truman, which reads:
“This came to me in a dream last night… My name is Annie. I’ve been with Dale and Laura. The good Dale is in the lodge and he can’t leave. ‘Write it in your diary.’ That’s what she said to me.”
Annie is Annie Blackburn, sister of Norma Jennings, from season two. Another page reads:
“It’s 1:30 AM. I’m crying so hard I can hardly breath [sic]. NOW I KNOW IT ISN’T BOB. I KNOW WHO IT IS.” They suspect Leland hid these pages when he came to the station to be questioned.
Laura, however, never met Dale Cooper. The two piece together that the Cooper who came out of the lodge that night (what was the end of season two) wasn’t the “good Cooper.” They want to bring Sheriff Harry Truman up to speed. Harry’s back—if only over the phone.
Somebody on reddit went to the trouble of transcribing the entire diary entry.
There I was with a _ _ _ _ (full of money?) and the clothes that _ brought. She's _ing my ear all sorts of nonsense. I can't make out what she's trying to say but I (take it all?) in as best as I can.
I sure didn't need a mask today. Some Halloween!
They were then able to find the exact page in Laura's Secret Diary, the passage here on Halloween 1989 is the page right before this one apparently:
Dear Diary, October 31, 1989
It's Halloween. No mask necessary. Blackie's sister, Nancy, from One-Eyed Jack's, brought MY clothes and the money they owed me stuffed into a plastic pumpkin. She asked if she could talk to me outside for a moment because
PAGE RIPPED OUT (as found)
It's interesting that the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer could possible have a whole other dimension after 'The Return' is finished.
It's interesting that the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer could possible have a whole other dimension after 'The Return' is finished.
Another interesting little tidbit is the sculpture of an owl peering over Frank Truman's right shoulder. Is this a signal that Frank Truman is not what he seems? We hope not because Robert Forrester is doing a fantastic job as the Twin Peaks 'down to earth' Sherrif.
A funny little tidbit and cute tribute, is that you can actually add Doc Hayward on skype at 'MiddleburyDoc'
'What was he doing in intensive care?'
'I thought he might be looking in on Audrey Horne. That terrible instance at the bank. She was in a coma.'
...This suggests to some that Audrey may have been raped by the evil doppleganger, and Richard Horne could be a product of this unnatural birth.
...This suggests to some that Audrey may have been raped by the evil doppleganger, and Richard Horne could be a product of this unnatural birth.
One other interesting fact about Sherrif Truman. In the first episode of The Return, somebody wants to see Sherrif Truman about insurance. I wonder if this could be related to the 'Lucky 7 insurance' Dougie Jones insurance scam plot?
Lieutenant Knox comes to ask about some fingerprints. However, she seems perplexed that they are on a victim in his late 40s—and that he died recently. “It’s not just prints this time. It’s a body. It’s him,” she says to Colonel Davis back east.
Also remember that Major Briggs appeared to Cooper when he passed out of the Red Room, saying “Blue Rose.”
Pretty soon we also get that creepy scene with one of those guys we now know as 'the woodsman' lurking around the deceased Major Briggs. The scene is also accompanied by electric sounds coming from the telepphone.
Cut to Gordon Cole looking at a picture of corn, and whistling next to a picture of a nuclear blast.
Others liken the tune to "Rammstein - Engel", which is also a band Lynch has claimed to like, and I have to say the tune is definitely reminiscent of what Cole actually whistles here.
Philadelphia and New York
Back at the FBI offices, Arnold comes back to Gordon after his meeting with Diane (Laura Dern), which didn’t go well, so they double-up this time. Diane lives in an awesome brownstone filled with beautiful midcentury furniture. She smokes constantly, has a sci-fi white blonde bob, and tells everyone fuck you a lot. She also makes damn good coffee.
Cooper is her former boss, and there’s definitely bad blood. But the FBI needs her to assess whether he’s really the guy in South Dakota, because of “something you know about, and that’s enough about that,” as Gordon says to her. She flies out with the team, and Agent Tammy Preston reveals her findings about Cooper’s mismatched fingerprints.
Oh, and there’s a pretty funny picture of Cooper/Bob, in the only known photograph over the last 25 years, outside a house he bought near Rio de Janeiro.
Many have speculated there might be some sort of code in the artifically produced sunlight flashing on the window panes. Seems absurd, but when dealing with Twin Peaks, the absurd is the norm.
At first sight it looks like the reflection of the light. But if you look at it closely you can see how it is removed via edits. Being David Lynch it could quite possible be some kind of coded message.
Somebody translated the code into binary, 1 for when the window appears and 0 when the window disappears and got this code:
111111 110000 110101 111111 100011 110001 110000 111111 110000 111000 110000 111000 010000 110000 010000 110000 011000 111000 011000 011100 111010 011000 111110 111000 111110 111100 111110 111100 111110 111100 111110 011110 101110 111110 110110 110010 111011 111010 111110 111100 111111 111110 011110 111110
"YOURE DOING GREAT WORK TAMMY. PASSING EVERY TEST!'
Of course it's possible Lynch is just fucking with us--- loving working all us amateur sleuth's into a frenzied state of clue-boggling by leaving confusing number codes all over the place.
'This is the spiritual mound. The spirit finger. You think about that Tammy"
There seems like there's quite a lot to unpack here. For a starter, it reminds you how wacky Cole's blue rose division is, and it brought to mind Agent Dale Cooper's 'Tibetan method' of solving Laura Palmer's murder by throwing stones at bottles. It also brought to mind the coded messages of Lil in Fire Walk with me.
I'm now comparing Gordon Cole's blue rose division to those stories of American military spiritualists who attempted to create psychic supersoldiers, and the great Jon Ronson documentary and subsequent movie 'The Men who stare at goats'.
It makes me really want to see a spin off series in the vein of Better Caul Saul, of X-files style 'Blue Role Cases' with this unit of psychic wannabe detectives who try to solve murders. Just a little bit less weird than "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
The other thing this got me thinking about were Cole's, (And indeed David Lynch and Mark Frost's interests). The scene immediately brings to mind the pseudosciences of palmistry and numerology.
Palmistry, or chiromancy (also spelled cheiromancy; from Greek kheir (χεῖρ, ός; “hand”) and manteia (μαντεία, ας; “divination”)), is the claim of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading or chirology. The practice is found all over the world, with numerous cultural variations. Those who practice chiromancy are generally called palmists, palm readers, hand readers, hand analysts, or chirologists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry
Interestingly, I think the last time we saw somebody so interested in another's hand in the world of Twin Peaks, was Leland studying Laura's ring finger nail, with dirt underneath it. An extremely haunting scene, and personally I think it could be more relevant to this Cole scene than we at first imagine. Obviously the discussion of the spiritual finger has resonances of the Owl cave ring, and Bob marking his victims with a letter under the fingernail of the ring finger. So this might be a good time to discuss the use of body parts in Twin Peaks:
BODY PARTS
Here's a rough list of body parts and their noticeable appearance in the series so far;
hands/fingers:
- the evolution of the arm tell Dougie to crush Ike’s hand (a part of the hand would be found by the police on the gun)
- Cole use Tammy’s hands to explain the reversed fingerprint of Evil Cooper hand. "I'm very very happy to see you again old friend" mentioning the “spiritual finger”
- Diane Fingernails are all different colors
- “Real” Dougie’s hands get smaller and smaller and the owl cave Ring fell off his hands before his head pops in the Lodge.
- The Owl cave Ring is seen being worn also by Teresa Banks and Agent Chester Desmond
- Agent Cooper finds a letter R under Laura Palmer's Ring finger (the letters under the fingernail were Bobs signature whilst the ring on the finger was Mikes protection from Bob.)
- Leland scolds Laura for having dirty fingernails at the dinner table in FWWM
- Dougie is still standing at the lawman statue outside of his office, and pulling his left arm up slightly into his left jacket sleeve. In the scene it almost looks like his hand is stuck, or he is trying to take the jacket off (with arms full of case files, no less), but the bottom line is he is making his arm "vanish", in a sense.
limbs:
- arms are often mentioned in Twin Peaks:
- Laura says that sometimes her arms bend backwards (Repeated in 'The Return for unknown reasons)
- MIKE is an inhabiting spirit similar to the series primary villain, BOB, who was his partner in serial murder. After committing several rape/murders with BOB, MIKE had a religious epiphany and repented, cutting off his own arm to rid himself of a tattoo that read "Fire Walk With Me", which symbolized being touched by "The devilish one." Bob had an identical tattoo on his arm. BOB, however, would not repent. MIKE has spent years trying to find and stop BOB.
- The arm of MIKE, also known as the Man from Another Place is an inhabitant of the Black Lodge, a realm of pure evil. The arm says to Agent Cooper 'I am the arm and I sound like this. Woo woo woo woo." (Making a sound that is like a cliche native american war cry, or the electrical currents that surround entities in the black lodge)
- Over the next 25 years, the arm had evolved into an electric tree with a fleshy-looking mass, the same shape as his former cranium, atop it
- The evolution of the arm kind of resembles the nuclear bomb
- Dougie’s left arm get numb before collapsing, in his left hand we notice the owl cave ring
- Mr C kills his associate Jack, whilst holding his face his arm appears to go numb
- Laura and Teresa banks both had their arms go numb for a period before their murders
- Evil cooper was taken to a federal prison in possession of cocaïne, a machinegun and a dog leg.
heads:
- Ruth's severed head was found in her bed along with the decapitated body of an unidentified male.. (later we found out it’s Major Briggs’ “unaged” body)
- In a dark void below the Black Lodge, Major Briggs’ head appeared to Agent Cooper, saying "Blue Rose."
- Tracey and Sam’s heads got mutilated by the spirit that appeared in the glass box
- Dougie's wedding ring was discovered inside a man's decapitated body in Buckhorn, South Dakota. The body had been found in the apartment of Ruth Davenport along with Davenport's severed head.
- Dougie’s head pops revealing a golden Bead
- Laura Palmer grabs her face like a mask revealing a very bright light behind it
- Evil Cooper kills Jack giving him a strange “face massage”
- Evil Cooper shoots Darya in the head
- Evil Cooper shoot Phyllis in the head (eye..much like Ruth Davenport)
- We see Jail Ghost’s AKA 'woodsman's head float in the prison cell
Other Flesh:
- With a search warrant, Macklay, Harrison, and other officers went to the Hastings home. In Bill's car, they found a piece of flesh.
- Ike the spike lost flesh from his hand on the gun he used to assasinate Dougie/Cooper
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DIANE
Diane was the first word we ever heard Dale Cooper say.
His longtime secretary and the recipient of all those tapes he recorded about his investigations, she was the empty chair where he directed his exposition, the silent confidante of his fears.
The closest we’ve ever gotten to a picture of Diane was a description in The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Cooper, where he called her an “interesting cross between a saint and a cabaret singer.” Like Laura Palmer herself, Diane never had a chance to speak in the original series. Like Laura, who came to life in Fire Walk With Me, she finally gets her chance. Now here she is: Laura Dern in a platinum-blonde wig, telling absolutely everyone to fuck off.
Albert tracked her down in hopes that she could assess the spiritual contamination of Bad Cooper, but his efforts yielded, as they like to say in the military, no joy. Now, Gordon Cole has decided to take a shot, showing up at her apartment to make a personal request for help. “This is extremely important Diane, and involves something you know about,” says Gordon. “And that’s enough said about that.”
In Federal prison we have this haunting dialogue between Diane and Mr C
Diane: 'When was the last time we saw each other?'
Mr C: 'At your house'
Diane: 'That's right. Do you remember that night?'
Mr C: 'I'll always remember that night.'
Diane: 'Same for me. I'll never forget it'
Diane: Who are you?
So what do we think happened between Diane and Bad Coop?
Best case scenario, she had an affair with Good Coop before he left for Twin Peaks, and Bad Coop took off without speaking to her. Maybe Gordon tried to use her as bait to lure Cooper out of hiding, and that's why she resents him. But we already have some idea of how Bad Coop treats women, so there are a lot of pretty dark places one's imagination could go to.
And then there's the theory I've seen that he raped Audrey while she was comatose, thus producing Richard (who would grow up to be an evil little rapist creep as well because he has Doppleganger DNA). That would be way too grim for most shows, but we just saw a kid get hit by a car, so if anybody would be willing to go down that path it'd be Lynch & Frost.
But if Mr C did rape them both... that's "two birds, one stone" - he gets to inflict pain on people who loved Cooper by wearing Cooper's face as he rapes them, and he gets to inflict pain on Cooper by essentially framing him for these things. Lots of Garmonbozia all for him.
The scene between Gordon Cole and Diane is pretty touching here, and echoes fans sentiments of the darkness that has come over Twin Peaks, 'There's something missing here.' Says Diane of Mr C, and we hope that that goodness can be reignited in all the hearts of the Twin Peaks community.
In the pilot episode Cooper records in his dictaphone:
‘Diane it’s 4:10 am at the scene of the crime. Here’s something we haven’t seen before. a Mound of dirt with a heart shaped necklace placed on top. At the base of the mound is a piece of newspaper with words written in blood ‘Fire Walk with me’
Now that we know that Diane and Cooper have a relationship history of some form or other, this creates extra symbolism as Cooper stares at the fractured heart that will begin his quest towards doom.
Now that we know that Diane and Cooper have a relationship history of some form or other, this creates extra symbolism as Cooper stares at the fractured heart that will begin his quest towards doom.
A very scared man is asked about his car by Andy. Someone did something illegal while driving it, but not him. (We still don't know who this guy is; he's only ID-ed as "Farmer" in the credits.)
“You’ve gotta get out of here now.” He agrees to meet Andy later, but begs him to leave.
They agree to meet at the very significant corner of Sparkwood and 21
Farmer : 'Meet you there in two hours'
Andy looks at his watch, "4:30 then"
Obviously this takes us back to the giants clues about 4:30, Richard and Linda. The Giant mentioned those two names to Cooper in the Black Lodge in the premiere, but it wasn’t until episode 5 that we met an unnamed man later credited as Richard Horne. Linda was mentioned in passing in episode 6 in a scene that involved Carl Rodd. Once those two characters come together, something big is bound to happen.
We know that Linda is in a wheelchair. Someone we have previously seen in a wheelchair is in the scene with Mr C, Otis and Beulla. Could this be Linda?:
Obviously this takes us back to the giants clues about 4:30, Richard and Linda. The Giant mentioned those two names to Cooper in the Black Lodge in the premiere, but it wasn’t until episode 5 that we met an unnamed man later credited as Richard Horne. Linda was mentioned in passing in episode 6 in a scene that involved Carl Rodd. Once those two characters come together, something big is bound to happen.
We know that Linda is in a wheelchair. Someone we have previously seen in a wheelchair is in the scene with Mr C, Otis and Beulla. Could this be Linda?:
Don't know if this will turn out to be relevant or not.
We now have references to all three of the giant's Richard and Linda clues:
- Richard = Richard Horne
- Linda = The wife of the guy who lived in the New Fat Trout Trailer Park
- 430 = The time the nervous guy was supposed to meet up with Andy
It can be difficult trying to make sense of what it all means. Based on episode 7 we have a bit more information on what Mr C was up to after he returned from the lodge.
- He visited a comatose Audrey and potentially raped her. This could mean Richard Horne is Mr C's son.
- Diane mentioned some encounter with Cooper that was important and seemingly not good. It could have been a bad encounter with Mr C, also including a rape.
- The guy who was supposed to meet Andy at 4:30 was seemingly answering for having the truck that Richard Horne ran the kid over with in his yard. He kept saying it wasn't his truck and wanted Andy to leave. He was extremely nervous like someone else was with him. He then never showed up to meet Andy.
Sioux City, South Dakota
Cooper/Bob later meets up with the warden in the office, but the security cameras are off. The warden pulls a gun. These guys know each other. “That dog had four legs,” Cooper/Bob tells him. “One you found in my truck the other three went out with the information you’re thinking about right now, to people you don’t want coming around if anything happens to me.”
Let’s back up: before Cooper/Bob got locked up, he had murdered Darya, and Ray had information from Will Hastings’s secretary, presumably about the murders in Buckhorn. The warden has some connection, but we don’t know what.
Cooper/Bob says the name “Joe McClusky” and that makes the warden stop. Cooper/Bob demands a car for himself and Ray Munroe. Joe McClusky, as well as the late Mr. Strawberry, reveal something terrible that the warden wants secret. By the end of the episode, Ray and Cooper/Bob bust out. Don’t forget, a crazy, murder-abetting Jennifer Jason Leigh is still out there.
Las Vegas
Janey E parks in a no parking zone.
"Janie Jones"
He's in love with rock'n'roll woaahh
He's in love with gettin' stoned woaahh
He's in love with Janie Jones
But he don't like his boring job, no...
An' he knows what he's got to do
So he knows he's gonna have fun with you
You lucky lady!
An' he knows when the evening comes
When his job is done he'll be over in his car for you
An' in the in-tray lots of work
But the boss at the firm always thinks he shirks
But he's just like everyone, he's got a Ford Cortina
That just won't run without fuel
Fill her up, Jacko!
An' the invoice it don't quite fit,
There's no payola in his alphabetical file
This time he's gonna really tell the boss
Gonna really let him know exactly how he feels
It's pretty bad!
Anthony tries to talk to Dougie (the real Cooper) while Janey-E waits for him, clearly worried that Dougie figured out his insurance scheme. In this case, Cooper’s brain-fry works to his advantage—and he gives up nothing as he makes his weird doodles. (How is this mess going to be solved? Can Cooper not be himself until Bob dies?)
Dougie Coop is drawing a zigzag pattern on his desk much like the chevron floor of the red room.
Also some have noted that one of his doodles greatly resembles The Owl Cave ring. Is Agent Cooper slowly working out what has happenned to him? Remembering his checkered past?
The police are here to see Dougie—about the car. Janey-E answers every question for him. He can only repeat back what she says.
It’s weirdly satisfying, not only because watching Coop sleepwalk through the last seven episodes has been like watching someone throw a ball into the air that somehow never comes down, and also because almost all of the violence on this show is predatory and disturbing. Boo-yeah action moments are incredibly rare, and finally feeling like we’ve connected with Cooper as his fist connects with a bad guy’s throat is delightful.
- THERE SEEMS TO BE A ONE-ARMED MAN IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE IKE SCENE. It’s after Ike runs off. He is in a business suit. No idea if this is relevant.
At the hotel, Ben and Beverly (Ashley Judd) talk about some strange sound in the walls. An old key (sent by Jade in Las Vegas) has arrived in the mail—it’s to the room where Cooper was shot 25 years ago. Beverly goes home to her husband, who is extremely ill and needs caretaking, which is why she went back to work.
The sound that Ashley Judd and Ben Horne hear at the Great Northern is most likely a Tibetan singing bowl; The sound began right around the time Cooper's 315 key returned, so could be why it started according to some theories:
Of course, these scenes are also reminiscent of scenes from Season Two, Episode 11 around the 33 minute mark. Ben Horne is in his office, talking to Hank Jennings:
"Do you think the furniture in this room is adequately arranged? I have been toying with the notion that if one could find the perfect arrangements of all objects in any particular space, it could create a resonance, the benefits from which, to the individual dwelling in that space, could be far reaching."
Maybe he finally arranged the furniture just right?
Ben is still coming off his Civil War mental breakdown at this point in the series.
In another segment of episode 19 .. The noise actually features.
After Ben has finished talking with the Billy Zane character (John justice wheeler) he heard the strange noise, and spun around extremely fast and the scene cut away.
I may have mixed up the scenes with who he was speaking with but whoever it was, it came on extremely fast and loud and he looked startled like he knew what it was but still slightly nervous. Definitely NOT as faint as it is heard in the office during season three.
Of course at the time, many speculated that the noise had something do with Josie's ghost in the Great Northern ; 'What happened to Josie?'
And these people are still speculating that the noise could be Josie communicating somehow. A similar noise often came when the giant visited Agent Cooper. Given that we know that the eyeless woman (Who some suspect to be Josie or Judy) resides in the same space as the giant, and Cooper travelled through the '3' '15' electric sockets (315) the number of his hotel room. Given that the key has just returned, i'd say all these aspects must be linked somehow, we just don't know how yet.
This obviously ties into the fact that Frost and Lynch have repeatedly stated that the new series will deal very much with the themes of time passing, old age and death.
Just a bit of final sweeping on my thoughts of Episode 7 now, then i'm going to draw some conclusions about where we are at. Most people spotted 'Bing' in the credits, who is Riley Lynch who enters the roadhouse in that strange scene at the end looking for 'Billy'.
FORESHADOWING
Some have noticed how strange it is how many popular fan theories are coming true, in the return.
Often fan theories are way off, if you think about other series like West World (Except for the fan spoiled ending, the speculation is often so off target and ridiculous)
But let's just look at all the fan predictions that HAVE come true:
1) There was a nuclear explosion, which has been predicted for months before the season even aired
2) Wally is Michael Cera
3) Diane is Laura Dern
4) The box was waiting for Cooper
Often fan theories are way off, if you think about other series like West World (Except for the fan spoiled ending, the speculation is often so off target and ridiculous)
But let's just look at all the fan predictions that HAVE come true:
1) There was a nuclear explosion, which has been predicted for months before the season even aired
2) Wally is Michael Cera
3) Diane is Laura Dern
4) The box was waiting for Cooper
So I wonder if some of the other more obscure theories are yet to come true:
1) Richard Horne is Audrey and Evil Coop's kid. ( we don't know yet )
For further speculation, here is a very interesting speculation thread on reddit:
And this reddit thread does a great job of LISTING ALL THE CHARACTERS SO FAR:
For me the theme of these last few episodes is 'The Roadhouse'. I think the hollowness and absence of the series is all centering around the roadhouse, and in some ways Frost and Lynch are asking us to question what's missing in the plot, rather than what's there.
Episode 8, with the nuclear explosion was a deliberate diversion, a bung to the head designed to baffle us and throw us off the scent.
Most have written off the character lurking in the background of the South Dakota murder as a red herring. But I think that Hank will turn out to be of major importance to the web of intrigue:
Hank to Harvey : "I've got all of it but it's mine. Mine and chips"
I find an interesting parallel that this character shares the same name as a very familiar character from the original series, who we are led to believe won't be making an appearance in 'The Return'.
In 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks' we are led to believe Hank Jennings committed suicide in prison, leaving a suicide note for all those he had betrayed, apologising for who he was.
Interestingly in the scenes we have with the new Hank, there are many shots of bars, and Bill Hastings in Jail, Mr C in jail, the jail theme runs throughout The Return.
The scene of Hank and Norma is very reminiscent of the Bill Hastings Phyllis Hastings scene:
Is it still possible we might get a return of Hank Jennings in The Return?
The Jennings clan we know were in league with the Renault's for a long time, which involved dodgy activity over the Canadian Border.
So let's go back to the Renault owned Roadhouse for a while, and finish the examination of what the roadhouse symbolises, also i've got a few more things to add about the weird events surrounding the dissappearance of my friend Mina.
In the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, the roadhouse was the culmination of the small town secrets bubbling over the surface, where secrets burst out into a violent outburst:
I'm trying to work out what could have happened to Mina. Was she kidnapped? Murdered?
Did she find out some kind of information she wasn't supposed to learn? Did she dig up some dirt on someone who wanted her out of the way?
I'm trying to piece together everything I've learned so far, and make some sense of it. I wonder what she was doing at that old warehouse in Marrickville. Maybe she was just urban exploring, I know she does like to explore abandoned buildings, old hospitals and underground tunnels. But I can't imagine her just leaving her phone there and not going back to try and find it. I wonder if Kim Seung the Korean guy who works at Red Dot Com was really stalking Mina, it seems like a pretty big coincidence that i should have seen him twice in the same few weeks, and -- that Mina would also take photos of him. If he saw her taking photos of him, would that be enough of a reason to kill her?
No. There'd have to be more of a reason than that…
She said she had found some kind of 'key'.
Then she kept talking about these 'keystones' that she had found on various old buildings along King Street.
I'm going to have to go back to King Street and see if I can scope out what the hell she is talking about. I guess at the same time I may as well drop straight in and talk to this Kirk Silverman guy. I'll just go straight in and ask her about the symbol and what Mina and he discussed. But then what if he's somehow involved in her disappearance? I could be jeopardizing my own safety, or Mina's if she's still alive somewhere, being kept captive.
I'm going to have to go back to King Street and see if I can scope out what the hell she is talking about. I guess at the same time I may as well drop straight in and talk to this Kirk Silverman guy. I'll just go straight in and ask her about the symbol and what Mina and he discussed. But then what if he's somehow involved in her disappearance? I could be jeopardizing my own safety, or Mina's if she's still alive somewhere, being kept captive.
The roadhouse scene in the pilot is interesting, it's like all the town secrets are being dug up, and then the emotions take over as people question trust and loyalty.
Hmmm... I did find something really interesting recently which has to be related to all of this somehow.
This old blog from 2012, discusses a so called 'Deep Throat' from Bohemian Grove. It gives the name Leonard Heinsberg and the email address falseprophet@live.com
This has eerie symmetry to that weird website i've been looking at:
I'm going to have to send an email to this address
The more I look at this website, i'm starting to put the pieces together. The editorials mention somebody named Frank Webster, as well as Leonard Heinsberg. Frank Webster was supposedly the leader of this Cult of Saturn cult that my friend Lucy was a part of.
I wonder if this cult could have something to do with the dissapearance of Mina?
She knew a lot about them too.
Another really important scene in the roadhouse of course, is the scene where Agent Cooper solves the crime. He does the classic Miss Marple/Columbo thing where he gathers all the suspects into the roadhouse.
'Blue Demon' turns out to be a pretty interesting guy. (He's from the Secret Book club). His real name is Anthony Vanguard and he works as a writer for 'Vulture magazine', I find him pretty interesting actually, he knows a lot and he's got some really interesting stories. I don't think he knows as much about the Cult of Saturn as he made out earlier. He just sort of heard rumours about them like everyone else. 'Mr C' is weird. I can't gage him at all. I don't even know his real name, and he is very secretive about details regarding himself.
Mr C: 'I'm on the drug, i'm on the drug, i'm on the drug that killed river Pheonix...'
AJ: You're obsessed with Tism C
Mr C: Meh
Blue Demon: Guys I just made a thread on /lit/ about this weeks book
Laura: Is anyone else finding the Savage Detectives boring? It's just pretentious and too post modern
Mr C: I agree it's shit
Underthefan: Hey guys. Have you seen this? You can add Doc Hayward on Skype at 'middleburydoc'
Mr C: Most things are shit
Blue Demon: He Glenn. I've been reading your blog. some deep shit their man
Underthefan: Thanks Tony
Blue Demon: You're really into this whole Mina dissapearing thing huh
Underthefan: I dunno. Yeah I guess. I'm just worried about her
Blue Demon: She'll turn up. Mina is weird and cagey like that
Underthefan: Yeah I hope so
Mr C: Mina's been occulted. It's the occultation. She's like the Twelfth Imam
Laura: Don't be a dick C
She's stubborn. But I guess I admire her for being so strong on her ideals and just being herself.
I wonder what's really going on with Dougie Milford. Did Frost just create his narrative as an outside, or is he connected to The Return somehow. I can't help but think about Dougie Jones, and the fact that he had the owl cave ring.
Well we know that Dougie Milford was wearing the owl cave ring on his deathbed. Then he is working for the FBI probably in a similar division to Cole's Blue Rose division. Is it possible that Dougie Milford was erased somehow? Similar to the erasing of Annie Blackburn and Dougie Jones is the result?
Dougie Jones works as an insurance agent. I'm sure this is important, because in the first episode of the return a guy comes to see Sherrif Truman about insurance. Then Dougie Jones and Tony Sinclair were obviously involved in an arson related insurance scam. Well we've definitely had arson related insurance scams in Twin Peaks previously.
On March 1, 1989, Insurance agent Walter Neff comes to collect Catherine's signature on the insurance policy Josie and Ben have been brewing in secret. Catherine was never supposed to know about it, but we discover that Neff withheld the last page with final signature blank because of the "irregularity" he felt existed with the client not wishing to handle the matter in person (obviously, a rouse created so as to handle the matter without Catherine's presence or knowledge). Neff tells her that Horne offered to collect the signatures, and this tips Catherine off to the plot. Afterward, she discovers that the "real" account ledger has been stolen from her secret hiding place that only she and Horne knew about.
EVIDENCE FOR THE ERASING OF DOUGIE MILFORD
Dougie Milford knew a lot about the owl cave ring, the owls and possibly the black lodge
In TSHOTP Mayor Milford says 'Andrew was like a younger brother to me. Like the brother I never had.'
Agent Tamara Preston notes this is a 'curious statement from somebody who definitely had a younger brother'
Could this be part of the parallel realities where Dougie Milford doesn't exist in one reality? Or does it indicate that Milford wasn't himself at this point, but may have actually been Bob?
The one armed man says to Dougie Jones as he is destroyed: 'You were crated for a purpose. That purpose has been fulfilled' Then Dougie transforms into a gold ball.
Laura Palmer was also apparently created for a purpose in the form of a gold ball.
What the fuck is the context to all this?
Then what about the Lana Budding/red head/mother of abominations/whore of Babylon stuff.
I'm sure something is going to come out of all of this. There has to be a red head making an appearance in The Return at some point. My money is on that.
Now what about these gold shovels?
Mina highlighted a bunch of the passages in this book she made me borrow for some reason. It seems absurd, but I can't help but wonder if Mina was trying to pull off some occult spell. Look at the passages that were underlined by Mina in this 'Doorway to Saturn' book:
"Everyone of us has inside us the gold core of enlightenment, and the opportunity to become the actualised self, the ubermencsh, the ultimate human form. Every man, woman and child is a star, and only by opening the gateway to darkness can we illuminate the world with our own light.""When the stars are right -- the gateway shall be revealed and the opener of the way shall call to his flock"
"Paint the player symbol in the mirror to begin"
"To get to level 2 you must find the silver key"
"To get to level 3 you must find the book of the key and the lock"
"On the new moon, the gradient rises to the South and all that was old shall be new again. Hold the map in your hand and never forget the star quest that shall bring you to the gateway. On Saturnalia the doorway shall open and the symbols align that the seeker may find what they seek."
What a weird bunch of stuff to highlight. Some of the stuff is really familiar but I can't work out where i've seen or read it before. Reminds me of Alestair Crowley. That reminds me, something really strange happened in the Secret Book Club chat recently, Mr C and Blue Demon were discussing occultists like Crowley and Marjorie Cameron. Then they started talking about this Australian occultist i'd never heard of called Rosaleen Norton. I'd never heard of her before, but apparently she was a really notorious celebrity in the Kings Cross region mid last century.
This got me thinking. The day I met Mina at the library she had been talking about doing some research on something that happened in the area 50 years ago. Given her interest in the occult and this Cult of Saturn stuff, I wonder if she could have been researching this 'Witch of Kings Cross'
I've been digging up some really interesting stuff in my own research trying to find out more about this cult. Like for instance did you know that in Berlin in the 1920's this group called 'Fraternis Saterni' were involved in financing the movie 'Nosferatu'. I found this pretty fascinating:
It seems strange to me the way that Mark Frost and Lynch always allude to these sinister figures in their work like Andrew Packard being a prominent freemason, and the prostution of young girls tying into this, or the cowboy and other sinister figures who run hollywood in 'Mullholland drive'. Do you think there is any meaning behind this symbolism? Or do they just use it to tell an engaging story?
When major Briggs returns after his dissapearance in the original run he tells his story of visiting the white lodge and recounts this strange experience of sitting in a throne. I know that in the original script for the Black Lodge finale there was going to be a throne room sequence in that too.
Hmm.... Another quick thought about the roadhouse. In Season Two in those ardous scenes outside Twin Peaks, there is an out of town roadhouse called 'Wallies Hiedout'. First of all this reminds me of Wally Brando, and surely the whole Michael Cera thing is a kind of parody of the James motorcycle plot.
Julian my flatmate has really been getting on my nerves lately. We are looking for a new flatmate, and he is just being really childish about the whole things. To be honest i'm actually considering moving out and just cutting my losses, maybe finding an existing sharehouse around Marrickville, who want another renter. I'm getting pretty sick of living in Kogarah. It's too far away from the city, and there's not enough around here. I mean there's a lot of great restaraunts, but the night life is bad.
There's a lot more going on in Marrickville, i'm going to have to look into this.
This is kind of the point. Maybe it's this question which destroys Cooper's soul in the black lodge.
He is unsure who his soul mate is.
What the fuck is that creep doing coming into the chat?
I wonder if there could be some cypher here to unlock the jarring scenes in the new season. Like the way the roadhouse acts as a drop off point. Then there is Dougie Jones driving around 'Sycamore Street' and going to 'Merlin court' and 'Guenivere way'
While on the subject just lastly, i've got to conclude this. But of course the most climactic scene in the roadhouse, is the season finale which is the 'Miss Twin Peaks contest'. Not not only is this scene the culmination of the King/Queen mystery at the heart of Season Two
It's also the first step in the path to the black lodge
Got an interesting note from Yuri Popov who made comparisons between these two poems:
"This is the water and this is the well.
Drink full and descend.
The horse is the white of the eyes
And dark within
Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds
Fire walk with me".
What do you think about it?
Drink full and descend.
The horse is the white of the eyes
And dark within
Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds
Fire walk with me".
What do you think about it?
I think Yuri could really be onto something here. There's an obvious dualism between water and fire, and the poems follow a very similar metred structure. One perhaps contains the secrets of the black lodge? And the other to Non-existence?
Thanks Yuri.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103404234987579830369?cfem=1
I better wrap this up. I've got to go talk to Lucy about Edwin. She is going to absolutely flip out.
I'll see you again after the hiatus guys. Feel free to send me any thoughts, theorems or speculations you have about anything said here.
I'll probably do my next post after Episode 9 or 10. We should really have a lot to work with by then. I'm very excited about it. Speak soon guys.
Why didn't Jacoby ever tell anyone about this weird incident with Laura Palmer speaking about the black lodge?
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