Subject: Re: "One and the Same???"
From: bob@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Date: 1991-06-24, 09:46
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

00aasatchwil@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
> >It was my thought that perhaps in the white lodge when they said "One and the
> >Same..."  they were referring to the Black Lodge and the White Lodge being
> >the same thing or the same location. Am I completely on the wrong track??

Spot on!

That is my interpretation.

The black lodge is the white lodge seen in a different way.

The qualities needed to survive in the Black lodge seem to
be the same as those which are required to enter the white
lodge. You enter the black lodge, and if you survive you are
in the white lodge.

The lodge is just a place where people are tested.

The Major and the Log Lady were both tested there. They were
both gone for about a day, testing Cooper took the same
length of time. The Major and the LL both passed the test,
and were marked. (A sort of hallmark).

The LL's husband fought the fire (BOB) and died.

When the Major was being tested he saw the lodge as an
ornamental garden (of a castle?). When Cooper is tested, the
lodge used elements from his original dream to confront him
with his other self. Inside the lodge has the aspects of a
bad dream. Time runs forwards at different speeds, backwards
and loops back on itself. You can run and run but you always
keep arriving back at the same place. I think that there is
only the one room and corridor as well. Leave the room and
you are in the corridor. Leave the corridor and you are
back in the room. Until the testing has finished, that is.

Coop failed the test. What better way to destroy someone
with his high personal standards than returning him with BOB
for company. Heh! heh! heh!
Bob.