Subject: White/Black Lodge/Waiting Room --new(?) theory
From: shallenb@spot.Colorado.EDU (Nualle")
Date: 1992-03-16, 17:22
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

  My theory is that Cooper wasn't long in either the White or the Black Lodges.
--He spent his time in the waiting room... And that's why he had such a hard
time finding WE and Annie... they went straight to the Black Lodge.

  Why, you ask?

  Windom's way into the Black Lodge was Annie, who was experiencing fear.
Her love for Cooper wasn't taken into account because she wasn't relating
what was happenning to her to Cooper.

  Coop, otoh, was experiencing both his love for Annie _and_ fear for her.
Thus he went into the waiting room until WE found him there.  When Coop made
the choice that he would give up his soul for Annie, he moved into the
White Lodge and his doppelganger appeared from the Black Lodge.
  
  Needless to say, Coop faced his shadow self with imperfect courage.  I think
it's pretty evident that he's the next generation's Windom.  We'll just have
to wait 25 years to see if he does any better with his situation than Windom
did.



-- Nualle" Schallenberger | "Batti, batti..." Music Geek (working my way up to | -Zerlina, `Fuguing Tune') | W.A. Mozart, email: shallenb@spot.coloradu.edu | Lorenzo da Ponte