Subject: Re: Dreamself & Non-helpful SDC (was John Cleese)
From: giovin@medr0.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo)
Date: 1991-09-24, 14:23
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <BARB.91Sep24090254@chamarti.ai.mit.edu> barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu writes:
> >In article <1991Sep20.173357.1222@risky.ecs.umass.edu> giovin@medr0.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes:
> >
>> >>   In article <1991Sep20.023955.33717@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2fowgodson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> >>   >If Senor Droolcup was indeed the Giant (who we have decided is Mr. Homm)
>> >>   >why didn't he help coop when he was shot?
>> >>   The Giant seems to be limited by something or someone.  He told
>> >>   Cooper in his first visit "That is all I am permitted to say," and
>> >>   also answered, "That cannot be revealed," when asked where he was from.
>> >>   Therefore, it is not unreasonable to assume that if SDC was aware of 
>> >>   Cooper's bleeding he may not have helped him because he either
>> >>   knew that he didn't need to or because he was not permitted to do so.

> >Or because Cooper had to be in that dream state between life and
> >death to become receptive to the message that the giant was giving.  I
> >don't have anything handy to check exactly when it was that the giant
> >started speaking to Cooper, but I believe that it was after he was
> >shot and before he got medical help.

Umm... well I guess that could be why, but he delivered messages later
too.  Also, you are correct about the Giant's first appearance.

Rocky Giovinazzo