Subject: Re: Blue Velvet question SPOILER
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-06-10, 19:05
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jun10.070843.507@intacc.uucp> zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo) writes:
> >In article <1991Jun6.214549.13027@cs.cmu.edu> kwh+@RI.CMU.EDU (Kevin Hartmann) writes:
>> >>
>> >>Why is the the 'Yellow' man still standing with a hole in his head?
> >
> >I think it was because he was shot in the head and only brain damage
> >pertaining perhaps to the higher functions were lost and not brain functions
> >like breathing or standing.  
> >

Right.  There are documented cases of people completely surviving a bullet
in/through the brain, people who go on to live a fairly normal life
afterwards.  Though this isn't the *typical* reaction to being shot in
the head, that chilling scene was all too understandable, and spooky, for me.
-- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder