Subject: Re: What the .... . .-.. .-..?
From: joe@zitt (Joe Zitt)
Date: 1991-05-04, 13:43
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

maus@Morgan.COM (Malcolm Austin) writes:

> > In article <1991May2.141558.23912@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> ian@lerch.jpl.nasa.gov 
> > <E N D S I E O S S E U L E I.
> > <
> > <Not particularly enlightening, is it?
> > <
> > <Has anybody out there figured out more of the code?
> > <
> > 
> > It's not a code.  There is no message.  It's just a "news flash" sound effect
> > Good thought, though.
> > 

This would seem to be, in a sense, straightforward, as a transmission from a
character displaced in time and space, trying to communicate with humans. The
strong sender does not interact well with our languages or time sense.

Thus, the message breaks down into:

END= End (English)
SI= Yes
EOS= End of Segment
SEUL= Alone? (French?)
E= And (Italian)
I= I (English)

Run this backwards, term for term, and you get something like "I ... and alone
... end of segment... Yes... end." or, interpreting it more freely, "I, by
myself, end the segment, yes, end." This serves to tell us that there was to
be no "Next time on Twin Peaks" clip, and this segment of the show's life
(that is, as a semiregularly scheduled weekly series on ABC) was coming to 
a lonely end (lonely due to low ratings?).

Who is the "I" in this? I suspect that it is the watcher from the White Lodge,
waiting by the transmitter as the others flood out to do battle in the finale.
One might hope that some segment of Harold made it to transfiguration (un ame
solitaire, indeed)...

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