Subject: Re: Gettysburg
From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
Date: 1991-01-25, 14:06
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <91025.115833JDO106@psuvm.psu.edu> JDO106@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> >While browsing through the postings in this newsgroup, I noticed that one vital
> >aspect of discontinuity with established history slipped by.  Namely, the South
> >did not win at Gettysburg, nor did they take Little Round Top as Ben Horn would
> >have us believe.

Which is why Bobby told Audrey "the good news" was that under Ben the
South was about to win the war.  Ben is obsessed with what might have
been. 

> >   One more thing.  The traffic lights are indicators of nothing more than it's
> >a small town setting.

Now how on earth would you know that?  There's no reason mundane
details and symbolic meaning can't exist quite happily together.  Ever
hear of TS Eliot and the "objective correlative"?

-- Rod Johnson * rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu * (313) 650 2315 "I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?" --Diogenes