Subject: Re: Re: Re: 12/1 episode questions...(Europeans avoid due to spoilers)
From: hutch@hutch.intel.com (Stephen Hutchison)
Date: 1990-12-07, 10:00
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <35570032@hpopd.HP.COM>, richardh@hpopd.HP.COM
(Richard Hancock) writhes:
>> > > The dwarf (=Leland) says "She's my cousin." If you take the "she" at 
>> > > this moment to stand for Maddie, then Leland speaks truth, because 
>> > > Laura's cousin is also his cousin -- once removed.
> > 
> > "Cousin", even "once removed", implies a peer relationship to me.
Surely Leland
> > is/was of a different generation to Maddie?
> > 
> > Richard.
> > "I can't die yet, I haven't mastered genealogy."

No.  Cousin implies the son or daughter of one's parent's siblings.

For instance, I am one of my cousin Cherie's "parental" role-models,
frightening thought.  She's about 14 years younger than me, which is
about 1 year off from the age differential between me and my mother.

Besides, Maddie was a college grad - she's always been "close to Laura"
but also she's always been about 6 years older than Laura.  Indulging
herself in regression-to-highschool games was really rather immature and
stupid; she should have known better than to conceal evidence the way
she did with the James-and-Donna stunts.

Hutch