Subject: Re: BOB linked to Coop's mom's death?
From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
Date: 1992-09-10, 14:34
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <18mkr5INN8s5@agate.berkeley.edu> sally@anableps.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson) writes:
> >I still think that the "owl ring" is some form of "marriage bond" between
> >the wearer and the giver, and that it is connected to the Black Lodge, thus
> >it is a symbol of the wearer having sold his/her soul to the Lodge, the
> >"forces of Darkness."

Why necessarily the forces of darkness?  If you do want to look at this in
fundamentalist religious terms, which some folks have suggested Lynch may
intend, couldn't the ring simply symbolize handing control over your fate
to the White Lodge as well?

After all, you can give your soul over to Heaven as well as Hell.

What I got from the end of the movie was not that Laura had made a pact with
BOB, but that she refused to do so ("You can't have me... kill me!").
Putting on the ring seemed to give her strength to resist, and die in the
process.  That would explain why her angel came to her in the Lodge, and
why she was happy.

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