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In alt.tv.twin-peaks, achapman@unixg.ubc.ca (Aaron Chapman) writes:

>    If you've ever read any Lynch interviews or seen him speak before, you can
> easily realize that Lynch doesn't come across as someone who is into deep
> psychological thought, and symbolic analysis of his own work. Instead, the 
> feelings you get from seeing certain images presented in certain ways is the
> way to perhaps better appreciate his work.

          Lynch has a keen eye/feel to create impressions which transcend our
  conscious mind and go deep into where it really counts.  This in turn 
  causes a reaction in the us which, because we are taught to consciously
  analyize that which affects us, causes us to ask "why"?

>    When you see the Man from Another Place dancing in Twin Peaks, you shouldn't
> feel obligated to attach meanings and connections and whatnot. I'm sure Lynch
> himself has specific ideas of his own when he is working on a film script and
> getting his thoughts together. But I am also certain for some others he has
> no idea what they mean, or how they connect in his story, but it just feels
> right to use them. I think Lynch appreciates his audience making their own 
> decisions rather than the audience getting his own ideas spoon fed to them.

         But Lynch is the same as we are.  True he is first just throwing
these brilliant impressions out there without a definite meaning behind 
them, but since Twin Peaks was an evolving creature, Lynch had the time
to watch with us and allow his own rationals to focus his creations.
Thus, the LMFAP intially was just a nifty little bugabooer, but later
he is clarified to represent communiation (the woo, woo, woo sounds of
electricity) and the sign-post of the psyche entering a new state
of consciousness  ("I am the arm", such as the arm of ability that has
opened the Door to this psychic state .. ie, "a force of arms".)

          
>    I think Lynch is attempting to get
> across the idea that there is no solution to the question. That was really what
> Twin Peaks was all about. It was a mystery, but the solution of the mystery was
> the last thing of concern and the show wasn't even about solutions, just the
> trip you take as you go along with that mystery.

      I agree completely.  Whatever his impressions do to your core-being
  is much more important than rationalizing  why they are affecting you.
      Twin Peaks was never so much about who killed Laura Palmer as it
  was about the state of the absolute human condition.  The mystery and
  wonderment of the town surrounding the murder  was a meditation on the
  question "why must life be this way?".  The audience then vicariously
  assumed the states of mind of the characters on screen.
            

>    All of this is why a lot of the plot debunking I see here on the Twin Peaks
> newsgroup, to be interesting, but in the end completely futile. There are no
> right anwers, and in many cases there are no ideas! Gormonbozia may be nothing,
> and Lynch may have chosen it for no other reason aside from the fact that
> creamed corn looks a certain way... And on the other hand, it could be the key
> to everything.

      Well, I had always hoped something so seemingly banal as creamed corn
  would be nothing more than a one-stop item, but aftter _TP:FWWM_  it 
  appears Lynch is becoming overtly rational concerning his maze.

>    The perfect Twin Peaks forum would be if we could all just sit in a room and watch the show and then just leave with smiles on our faces.

     Again, I agree completely.  Yet we as modern day psychologicaly abused
  humans have been trained  to think ourselves into the psycic equivalent
  of the Black Lodge.

                                           Phil
                                        (miller@scd.hp.com)
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