Subject: Twin Peaks article From: peregier@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Phil Regier) Date: 1990-11-22, 09:14 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks A summary of this has been posted already, but I thought I'd include the rest of the article for your dining and dancing pleasure. Actually, it's a summary of yet another article, but I thought it would be of interest. This came from my local newspaper. The other side of Twin Peaks ---------------------------- Mystified by the plot of this bizarre sudser? It's all in the symbolism ---------------------------- By Bill Anderson The Canadian Press OK, Peaks freaks, time to wake up and smell the coffee. Leland Palmer is not suffering a split personality, and if he did kill his daughter Laura - as the big Nov. 10 episode suggested - the reason wasn't anger or guilt. No, poor old Laura managed to figure out the identity of shadowy, long-haired Bob. But before she could reveal it, she was offered as a human sacrifice to the coven of devil worshippers who inhabit Twin Peaks. That's right - Bob is Mr. Big himself. The guy with the horns. Satan. How do we know all this? Well, we don't, for sure. But Toronto Peaksologist Peter Howell has this theory, and since it appeared in an article in the Toronto Star on Oct. 13, it has suffered remarkably few setbacks. The basic idea is that Twin Peaks creators David Lynch and Mark Frost have been able to disguise their supernatural thriller as an offbeat whodunit. Only recently have they begun - as the one-armed man might say - to show their true face. In order to see it, however, it helps to understand the raft of mythical, numerological and religious symbols planted throughout the series. (There's also a barrel of TV and movie references - identical cousins, homages to The Prisoner - but that's another story.) Howell is convinced that Lynch and Frost are using a reference book - such as his college textbook A Dictionary of Symbols by J.E. Cirlot - to plot the design of the series. Howell said he first twigged to what was going on last season, during a dream sequence that featured a circle of candles - a symbol of good - being blown out.