Subject: Re: TP 2nd season finale SPOILERS
From: haroome@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allisson Roome aka Allie)
Date: 1991-06-12, 12:47
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jun11.163051.4650@netcom.COM> dawn@netcom.COM (Darragh Nagle) 
writes:
> >
> >   -- stuff deleted --
> >
> >Laura Palmer's hand symbol looked like a symbol, similar to the
> >pose in many Bhuddist paintings. Anyone know what it means?
> >

If my memory serves me correctly it's the classic possition taken by
Shiva while doing his dance that destroys and thus remakes the world
The fullfilment of the death and re-birth cycle. It's also symbolic
of something that is in this world but not of this world. 

Idle speculation re: any sort of follow-up.  My office-mate Gael and I were
speculating about how the whole Coop or alter-Coop would get returned to
their rightful places.  I was reading in the _Access_Guide_to_Twin_Peaks_
about the Passion Play which occurs every 5 or so years, but be ready in April,
at Glastonbury Grove. It's rumored to be produced by the Bookhouse Boys. Hmm,
Passion Play (usually having to do with the death and resurection of Christ),
Glastonbury the legendary burial place of King Arthur who sought the Holy Grail
aka the Cup of Christ (Arthur, the Once and Future King, who goes away but will
return at the times of greatest need and peril -- yet more death and re-birth
symbolism) and not to mention the secret society (ala the Masonic Lodge) which
is dedicated to keeping the good and rightious.  Now if my time sense is 
correct the Miss Twin Peaks contest is in April -- just in time for an emer-
gency reenactment of the Passion Play ... food for thought, eh?