Subject: one stone at a time, ma'am
From: pouncy@campus.swarthmore.edu
Date: 1990-11-23, 09:52
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Yes, we admit it we still belong to the 'Ben-did-it' faction. 
This means that we believe that BOB is mobile and left Ben's
body as soon as he was put in the slammer. Then he entered Leland
and we all know what happened next.

But having said that we should like to contribute some balanced
observations in order to further public debate on the net. Some
of these remarks will provide additional comfort for the 'Lelandites'.

1) A friend of ours runs a media lab in Boston and has seen the first dream
sequence over twenty times. He believes now that all the clues necessary
to solve the murder (and predict Maddy's) are in Coop's dream. For example, 
Laura herself tells Coop who killed her. The shadow of an owl appears
across the red curtains in the background. The dwarf himself, our friend 
speculates, represents Laura's arrested childhood as a result of her
sexual victimization by her father. The dwarf calls Laura 'my cousin'
thus Laura herself (as dwarf) and thereby warns Cooper about the danger
to Maddy.

2) Is Laura trying to help Cooper solve the murder and prevent others?
Are the spirits that appear various manifestations of Laura's spiritual
personality? 

3) This is a SNAT show BTW (Sensitive New Age Television). It provides
a multi-media experience for its audience in which symbolism is more
important than action: a serious peaker can watch the show, tape it, 
re-watch it, read the diary, listen to the tapes, call the 900 number,
listen to the CD, read the net and even talk to real people primarily
about the symbols rather than the real plot.

4) What's now left for the 'Ben-did-it' people?
a) The OAM has pointed at him and during his jail visit he stated
that BOB was very close but not here NOW.
b) Would Leland have hung out with low-life like Jacques and Leo 
on the night of Laura's murder? More Ben's types surely?
c) Why indeed has Leland become more careless after forty years of
meticulously planned acts of evil? Doesn't BOB want to get Leland caught
as others have suggested? 
d) Is BOB\Leland a one man crime wave in Twin Peaks responsible for almost
every act of violence except the brutal assassination of Waldo? 
Did he kill Theresa Banks, stab Laura, bludgeon Maddie, assault Ronette, 
shoot agent Cooper, smother Jacques, attack Jacoby, stain Ronette's IV bag, 
drive a two-armed man to self-mutilation, drug Sarah Palmer, 
and hang poor Harold Smith?

5) And now for the hegemonic Leland faction on the net.
a) Other than Cooper, the OAM and Ronette, the only people
who have seen BOB are people in Leland's family.  
b) The OAM meant that BOB had been near Ben not hosted by Ben.





Diarmuid Maguire and Hillard Pouncy