Subject: Re: I've gotta hand it to ya
From: ramos@aludra.usc.edu (Luis Ramos)
Date: 1991-04-22, 16:00
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <91112.150928KJA102@psuvm.psu.edu> KJA102@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> >If you remember, Mike cut off his LEFT arm, and it is everyone's right hand
> >that is shaking.  

Does anyone recall why Mike cut off his LEFT arm? Here are several reasons
I can think of:

1. As a form of real major penance for his bad deeds, he voluntarily cut his 
   left arm (just as they do in the Yakuza) in the face of God.
2. A body without a left arm is immune from evil habitation.
3. Mike had a "tattoo" on his left arm which the evil aliens/spirits use to
   hook up to him. Amputating this arm will consequently sever his ties
   with them.
4. He happened to be holding an axe or a machette on his right hand just as 
   the shakes set in then the right hand took a mind of its own and chopped 
   the other arm off (just like they did in "Evil Dead 2").


Louie