Subject: Cooper/Cooper/Cooper
From: jen@athena.mit.edu (Jennifer Hawthorne)
Date: 1990-10-07, 11:27
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1990Oct7.055750.13024@zip.eecs.umich.edu> chrisl@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes:
.plot twist in Cooper's (and our) lap.  On the other hand, the Major isn't
.the type of character to do things in a roundabout fashion.  What does
.surprise me is that he said nothing to Cooper until the Log Lady tells
.him to.  First of all, why would he keep the information from Cooper for
.almost two whole days?  I would think that alien communications with a
.specific recipient would warrant faster action than that. 

Well, if I were doing the sort of work he was doing (monitoring radio
noise from distant galaxies) and something in perfectly recognizable
(albeit weird) English came up on the readouts, my conclusion
would be "someone on the project has a strange sense of humor".  The
only reason I might track down someone named in such a printout would
be to find out who they might know who would be on the project and be
a practical joker.  I certainly wouldn't take the message seriously as
a communication from outer space.  Although if I lived in Twin Peaks,
I might at least consider it...

Jen
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