Subject: Re: lots of finale stuff (SPOILERS!!!)
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-06-13, 21:00
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Hi, Rocky - This continues the thread about various symbols on the
Petroglyph map.  It didn't look like any amount of editing would leave
it short *and* intelligible, so hopefully anyone who's interested has
read the old postings and has memory (better than mine!).  I'll probably
just keep a couple of recent comments...

I looked at the symbol to the left of the trees in the Guide, and see why
you saw it as the pool - those lips on the side do look like edges of a
small pool, and the wavy lines between the black & white portions look kind
of liquidy.  Of course, they also look kind of curtainy...

I wonder if that symbol might, in fact, be both the pool *and* the entrance.
The Log Lady's oil may be what is floating in the pool, and it is
*supposed* to be an entrance.  I originally didn't think of it as the pool,
simply because it wasn't within the ring of trees.  However, I'm not
really sure if spatial organization means very much in this "map".

I've never been able to make what seemed like the obvious features on
the Petroglyph Map align with that area map on the back of the Guide,
though I must confess I was trying like the dickens to get the falls
to line up.  I think the beginning of the Guide tells you which two
peaks the town is named for (damn, I wish I had it here with me, again).
But in any event, I was never able to get just the two mountains and the
falls to arrange themselves in any reasonable way.  (Incidentally, what
we've all been calling the "falls" on the petroglyph might also be seen
as a curtain... sheesh!)  Despite WE's claim to have made such an
alignment (I've framecaptured that image, and you can't really see the
underlying area map in any detail at all), I kind of think that there's
more artistic license than careful attention to detail at work here.

Hee hee... just had a thought... I think if you assumed that the petroglyph
map was reversed left-to-right, then you might be able to place the
circle of trees off to the east (your posting kept saying west when I think
you really meant east), and better help the alignment of the mountains and
the falls.  So either the artist hired to inscribe the original petroglyph
reversed a transparency somewhere along the line, or the Lodge members
who drew it did so on the "back" of the rock (from the other side of the
plane between mystical and physical dimensions).  :-) :-) :-)

I'll take a look at the Guide map again, and try to make the alignment you
suggested.
-- -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