Subject: Re: Statue inconsistancy
From: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Barb Miller)
Date: 1991-06-11, 19:04
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu

In article <1991Jun11.221007.25362@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> mjf@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michael J Flory) writes:


> >  Beverages, potions, whatever, they're important in many myths.  When the 
> >  coffee froze, it seemed a logical result of the freezing of time.  But when 
> >  it turned viscous, it could have been time picking up steam again -- or was
> >  it oil?  The oil of the gods is _burnt_ -- as are the offerings to the gods.
> >  What would have happened if Coop had _drunk the oil?_

Well, when he was presented with the coffee all I could think of was
the myth of Persephone, who was abducted to the underworld and refused
to eat anything there until finally she accepted some pomegranate
seeds.  When she was eventually rescued, those seeds that she had
eaten caused her to have to go back there for part of every year.  I
was definitely hoping he wouldn't drink the coffee.  When it "froze" I
thought of the icy lake in the innermost circle of hell (according to
Dante).  Then when the Dwarf said "wow Bob wow", I thought it was
probably the director having fun with some special effects imagery.

> >  Or was it just pancake syrup? :)

That too.

Barb Miller