Subject: Re: Spoilers from TP merchandise
From: long-morrow@CS.Yale.EDU (H. Morrow Long)
Date: 1990-09-17, 07:14
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Spoilers follow:


























































In article <1158600046@cdp>, forestwatch@cdp.UUCP writes:
|> 
|> There are more possibilities than those outlined above.
|> In fact, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer--which, by the way, is
|> not the diary found by Cooper and Truman--points a strong finger
|> at Leland.  BOB is a child-abuser, someone who doesn't want "Laura"
|> to grow-up, someone who has been having sex with her since she
|> was four or five.  BOB is an anagram--like DAD it is spelled the
|> same way backwards and forwards.  The diary also reveals Laura
|> to be a paranoid schizophrenic.  There's no need to believe in
|> the Laura/Maddy switch to believe that there are 2 Laura's.
|> In any event, the Diary reveals that Maddy is 4 years older than
|> Laura which the autopsy would have surely discovered.

BOB is also an acronym (from the Secret Diary):

Beware
Of
Bob

Even knowing his name is apparently dangerous.

Laura turns to cocaine addiction as the only relief from him.
Drug addiction leads her into s&m, lesbianism and group scenes
(don't buy the Secret Diary if you are from Cincinnati or Florida).
Laura finds herself becoming more like BOB (even her charitable
service in the Meals on Wheels program is affected by the bad
side of her character - she forces one of the homebound seniors,
Harold Smith - to have relations with her) over time.

I am not sure that BOB is her father.  But he is someone who has
been ruining her life before the Secret Diary is started (when she
is 11 or 12?).  I don't think she has seen her father nude till the
incident where she barges in on her parents 'in flagrante delecto'.

I am more inclined to think that BOB either represents the dark side
of Laura's psyche or is someone from the spirit world which coexists
with the physical in Twin Peaks (both Laura and her mother
experience visions).


Diane, I got so goofy last night, wondering if I was going to
live or die, that I thought I saw a giant in my room.....
This is me, Agent Dale Cooper, Room 315 at the Great Northern
Hotel....(from the audio tape)