Subject: Laura is still alive?
From: jimh@hprpcd.HP.COM (Jim Hickey)
Date: 1990-10-03, 12:19
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

When I first read this, I thought it was a little far fetched.  But after
the season premiere, it really makes alot of sense.  There (obviously) is
a lot of that good ole theme Good and Evil (Fire (in the message,
the mill, the log lady: "Fire is the devil..."), Leo's red corvette, red
curtains, the traffic light turns red as we watch, Dr. Jacoby's glasses:
one Red and one Blue, killer-Bob wears a crown of thorns in the visions).
Not to mention all the mysticism.  And then we have Laura who seems to be 
the epitome of evil, contrasted with Madeleine, who is everything good.
What if Maddy was the one that died, sacrificed (twelve candles in a
circle around a mound of dirt) so that Laura could be 'reborn'; there
are other rebirths, Leland's white hair (purity?) and new outlook on life;
the one armed man: "but when I saw the face of God, I was changed", to 
name a few.  Some other things to think about:

Why visit Tibet?  (more of a belief in the afterlife, etc?)
One armed man in dream:
  Through the darkness of future pasts,
  The magician longs to see
  One chance odds between two worlds,
  Fire, walk with me.
The DWARF in the dream:  "She's my cousin.  But doesn't she look
  almost exactly like Laura Palmer?"  ("Laura" in this dream had brown
  hair, like Maddie)