Subject: Re: waiting room statue
From: brian@tadtec.uucp (Brian Kelly)
Date: 1991-09-25, 06:45
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Sep24.000627.1390@ac.dal.ca> ogre@ac.dal.ca wrote:
> >i'm not certain i'm remembering this right, but didn't the statue in the
> >waiting room disappear after coop's doppelganger arrived? if so, any
> >speculation as to why?
> >o.

This is related to but not exactly the point you are talking about. On the
UK twin-peaks mailing list in june I wrote the following speculations about
one of the statues in the Lodge scene:

> >Now for more speculation on the Venu de Milo symbolism.
> >
> >Suppose the corridoor between the curtains is always the starting point for a
> >trip into either lodge. As you pass into a room, from the corridoor, your
> >destination is governed by your emotions, fear==>black love==>white.
[ Also remember Major Briggs biggest fear "that love is not enough"]
> >
> >When you return you will know which lodge you were in by whether the Venus is
> >in the corridoor or not. Venus is the god of love after all so she symbolises
> >love. Cooper knows of the Venus de Milo because he said so to Gordon and so,
> >as we've almost settled on the fact that the Lodge imagery is made up by your
> >own experiences/knowledge, the Venus is not out of place.
> >
> >The corridoor consistently had the Venus in it (implying white lodge) at the
> >beginning. Cooper then entered a room where the screaming Laura came up to him.
> >WE's face flashed on her face and Cooper left visibly distressed. He returned
> >to the corridoor where the Venus still was. However he was now consumed by fear
> >and so when he entered the next room he entered the black lodge. This is when
> >he felt himself stabbed and blood covered his hands. He returned to the
> >corridoor (no venus) and it looked like he had already walked along the
> >corridoor bleeding heavily (blood on the floor). This (blood on floor) would
> >imply some sort of duality in the corridoor or maybe, as many seem to be
> >saying, the non-linearity of time in the lodges.
> >
> >Maybe Coop's stabbing (after seeing WE for the first time) is just more
> >imagery from personal experience, that was the time that he probably felt he
> >had failed totally (i.e. in Pitsburgh) and so when he entered the black side,
> >the overwhelming sense of despair and failure caused him to relive the
> >Pitsburgh experience.
> >
> >Well that's enough wacky idea's for the moment. 
> >

Brian