Subject: Re: Gesar: Tibetan Arthur (was Glastonbury)
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Date: 1992-09-30, 04:23
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Sep29.132907.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>, crago_l@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
> > In article <1992Sep21.105917.7654@ac.dal.ca>, 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
>> >> In article <RJRcRB2w165w@netlink.cts.com>, jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery) writes:
>>> >>> tallman%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Robert Oliver) writes:
>>> >>> 
>> >> All this stuff leads me to believe that maybe people are being nabbed so that
>> >> the will serve humanity in its hour of greatest need. Maybe Aurthur, and 
> > (stuff deleted)
>> >> 
>> >> Mike
> > 
> > Here comes a Tibetan tie-in again. Their epic hero, Gesar of Ling, is
> > commonly believed to be *sleeping* until his people have great need of
> > him again, at which time he will arise and lead a great army that will
> > defeat the world-wide enemy, just like King Arthur of Great Britian.
> > 

Of course, there are so many people bleieved to be sleeping until they
are needed at humanity's greatest hour of need, I don't think ther'll
be any problem with the enemy ;-)

> > As I noted in a previous post, I see an Arthurian motif in the fact
> > that both Teresa Banks and Laura Palmer were floated down the river.
> > This relates to Elaine the Lily Maid, who was hopelessly in love with
> > Launcelot (hope I'm correct there), and killed herself because he only
> > had eyes for Queen Guinevere. In TP and FWWM, both victems were killed
> > on land, presumably far from a river (wooded upland), so had to be
> > wrapped in plastic, transported however far it was, and then set afloat
> > on the river -- great shot of Teresa floating down the Wind River in
> > FWWM -- so the action obviously did not follow logically, but had to be
> > included because of its symbolism or mythic motif value. Make sense?
> > 


All this makes sence, but I wonder if BOB wasn't trying to recreate Viviene
of the Lake instead of Elaine, or if he read Tennyson (The Lady of Shalott).

Whatever, Lynch really is into the Aurthurian thang... I wonder if Windom
id Lancelot then... Authur's (coop's) closest ally who turns on him.
Or maybe Coop is Lancelot to Windom's Aurthur, since he fell in love with 
Caroline. I dunno... anyone else have an idea?

Mike

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