Subject: Re: Frost/Lynch completely wimped out this time
From: jha@cs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)
Date: 1990-12-04, 07:54
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,alt.recovery
Reply-to: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)

In article <1990Dec2.092715.1737@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
> >They had the *perfect* chance to examine the horrible world of
> >child abuse....
> >But noooooo.  L/F have to back out, and instead of realising that people
> >really are *that* "evil" on their own, they have to go and invent
> >"BOB"....

     I think you've got completely the wrong idea about this --
you're looking at it much too literally.  BOB is a metaphor for
the evil side of everyone's personality.  Even if you don't
believe in vampires, vampire stories can tell you lots about
avarice, sex, obsession, compulsion... as many writers have
shown over the years.  _Twin Peaks_, the modern horror story cum
soap opera, has a different focus and different plot devices.
The idea, though, is similar.

     I spent the weekend reading _The Secret Diary of Laura
Palmer_, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jennifer Lynch,
at least, is very aware of the symptoms of survivors of child
abuse, and the process by which victims perpetuate the "evil"
which they feel has become a part of them.  The fact that it's
represented as an evil spirit migrating from abuser to victim is
just a literary device (but a very powerful one, IMHO).

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