Subject: Re: White/Black Lodge/Waiting Room --new(?) theory
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Date: 1992-03-17, 14:16
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Mar17.012219.5110@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, shallenb@spot.Colorado.EDU (Nualle") writes...
> > 
> >  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.
> >  

     We've been talking back and forth about this for a while.  My pet
     theory is pretty close to yours.  Earle was admitted to the Black
     with his "gift" of fear.  Coop, with his oil, was admitted ^only^
     to the waiting room, which occupies the space between the Black
     and White Lodges.  

     Hawk said if you enter the Black Lodge (presumably the white as
     well) and face it with "imperfect courage" your soul will be
     utterly annhilated.  Coop offered his soul to Earle in exchange
     for Annie's life, thus showing "perfect courage" (maybe), and
     therefore BOB was able only to take his soul hostage and replace
     it with the Doppleganger.  

     Anyhow, that's my theory.     






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