Subject: Re: Madelyn and Donna
From: kaufman@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Date: 1990-10-03, 16:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1222@beguine.UUCP> Heidi.Aycock@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes:
> >I hate to refer to the diary, since it's really a supplementary
> >piece of evidence, but there's a lot of people who think Donna
> >and Maddie have never met before. In the diary, it's clear that
> >they have. Maddie even gave Donna and Laura their first cigarettes.
> >I think you could infer this relationship even without reading the
> >diary. I mean, Donna was Laura's best friend and Maddie seems like
> >a cousin Laura would be close with since they look so much alike
> >and Maddie has such a strong link emotionally with Laura. That
> >explains why Maddie knows Donna's phone number so well, too     
> >(referring to that person who said Maddie must be Laura because
> >she dialed Donna's number without looking at the phone).   

Except that this is one of the plasces where the diary wildly diverges from 
the show.  When M and D meet in the RR, M has to tell D who she is.  If they
knew each other, she would not have had to introduce herself.  Also, I am
not sure how close M and Laura were.  Didn't M tell D that she had not seen
Laura for many years?

I also think that it is dangerous to use specifics from the diary.  The diary
and the show are not to well related.  First of all, Laura is still making
notes in the diary for 8 months after she is supposed to have died.  In the
show, doesn't M say that she is Laura's age?  In the diary, she is 4 years
older.  I am only about 50 pages into the diary, but there are lots of 
things that don't match up.  (Well, a few anyhow.)  I think that the diary
is better for getting Laura's impressions of things and not as good for
solving questions about the show.

Michael

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