Subject: Re: Truman/Bob (pws2315)
From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer)
Date: 1991-02-23, 11:54
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <21350@know.pws.bull.com> ap056@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (J. Scott Owens) writes:
> >
> >If you will recall, each time Bob appears, the host disappers..
> >For that matter, anytime any spirit appears, the host disappears.
> >(Except for the "one-armed man", so this deserves some thought.)

What about that time at the Roadhouse when EVERYONE disappeared and the
Giant appeared and said "It is happening again"?  Were all the random
people in the Roadhouse host to the Giant?  (Wait a minute, maybe it was
just the band that disappeared, and the customers all froze.  I can't
remember.  Anyway, the point remains the same.)

Personally, I think that the people are only disappearing from Coop's point
of view.  Certainly they don't have any memory of having disappeared when
they return!  The question is what happens from THEIR point of view?  Does
Coop disappear?  Does Coop freeze?  Or do things just proceed normally?  I
suppose it could depend on whether the manifestations are mental or
physical.  Although even if they were physical, maybe Coop is transported
to a place where time flows much faster, so no time elapses when he
returns.  (I think I'll stop speculating wildly now...)

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