Subject: Re: Why does black=evil? (was: Has anybody noticed the black & white
From: keb3@po.CWRU.Edu (Keith E. Bitely)
Date: 1991-04-18, 20:06
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In a previous article, mvb@eagle.mit.edu (Mary V. Burke) says:
> >To add to the general confusion--er, scholarly discussion :) --what about 
> >our notions of the significance of whiteness?  Check out the chapter in 
> >_Moby Dick_ called on "The Whiteness of the Whale" for some nifty ideas.  
> >In that book, at least, white signifies the absence of color, a void,  the 
> >vacuum, featurelessness, etc.--not an actively Good principle.  So if 
> >white is an absence of color, and black is an absence of light, what 
> >happens to the relationship between the WL and the BL?  (The lights are 
> >on, but nobody's home?)  I'll have to check out that chapter when I get 
> >home, it's wonderful stuff.
> >Another thing occurs to me--isn't white the color of mourning in one of 
> >the Oriental cultures (sorry, I forget which country--I think it's Japan)? 
> > Probably not Tibet, though...

I don't know about the Tibet thing.  But, if you want to talk actual physics.
Black is the absence of color, White is all color.  Going along the lines 
of recent posts regarding Cooper and wisdom, The White Lodge and white could
signify all wisdom, about everything that is going on, all good.  The Black
Lodge could signify a lack of wisdom and goodness.  

This is a stretch, but Cooper uses the black pieces, Earle uses the White.
Earle seems to know alot more about the lodges and seems to be closer to
finding out what is going on (such as tonight's episode where he talks about
the 'map')  Cooper seems to be 'in the dark' about the whole situation.  Or,
at least, that is what the writers seem to be portraying thus far.  Earle
is doing all of the planning and the killing.  He, so far, doesn't seem
to have any spiritual help because he figures things out by himself.  Cooper,
on the other hand, needs the aid of spirits, such as the giant which 
appeared in tonight's episode.  Again, this shows how Earle knows more, and
Cooper is in the dark.

Just some theories to play around with...

Keith
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