Subject: Re: Harold did it! (what were those diary pages doing there?) From: horny@ucscl.UCSC.EDU (Michael Kaye) Date: 1990-11-04, 16:08 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <3822@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@der.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: $ $ - Laura gave her diary to Harold Smith several days before she was killed. $ - Harold kept the diary in a *very* safe place, and was always in the $ house with it, so it's doubtful that another person could have gotten $ to the diary without Harold knowing about it. Unless the diary was gotten to before it was given to Harold, which it was. $ - Were the pages torn out of the diary *before* Harold got it, $ or was the diary intact when Laura gave it to him (except for the few $ pages near the beginning from several years back)? $ I tend to remember from reading the diary (yes, you too can buy $ Laura's private life in a bookstore near you!) that Laura didn't $ mention certain pages being torn out near the end; could someone check $ for me! (I don't own a copy.) Laura mentions that pages were ripped out of her diary just prior to giving it to Harold smith, on the last page of the diary. Also when she's younger she stops writing for some time after discovering that someone has been reading her diary. This is long before she meets Harold. $If it's true that Harold got the diary intact, then I think it's safe $to assume that no other person had gotten to it -- how, then, to $explain the missing pages of the diary found at the train car? Since assumption is wrong, it's reasonable to assume one of the following. 1) Someone other than Harold tore out pages 2) Someone other than Harold, and Harold, both tore out pages. 3) Harold got to the diary before she gave it to him. So insert your favorite BOB host suspect as the one who ripped out some of the pages. Leland works pretty well being in the same house. If he did inspect her room from time to time he might have also found a picture of Theresa Banks, on the page of Fleshworld Jacques wraps her gift drugs in. $Here's a theory: BOB wanted to destroy Laura (for being too $psychically powerful?), so he possessed Harold (who was very close to $her) and brought him to the train car to molest and bludgeon her. $That could be why Harold is even more deathly afraid of venturing $outside now. He's been deathly afraid of leaving long before Laura's death. Harold tells Laura that he thinks he will die if he leaves home, that seems to fit the definition of deathly afraid. :) There are several good reasons to suspect Harold though. Michael Kaye horny@ucscb.ucsc.edu