From: fong_jh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Julian H Fong)
Subject: Re: I saw FWWM ** SPOILERS !! **
Keywords: connections
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:31:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.062740.4564@cs.mun.ca> georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel) writes:
>>Kay Carter <carterk@cgsvax.claremont> writes:
>>>    2.  If "The Man Behind the Mask" is Bob behind the mask of the
>>>posess), What exactly is the meaning of the paper mache mask?
>>
>>When the younger Tremond (or whatever his name really is) said that line
>>*with* the mask on, did anyone else get the feeling that somehow Bob and
>>him were related?
>
> Ok, young boy (grandson).. remember in the series Leland told Cooper that
> this family lived at a certain address, and that Bob was one that lived
> there and that he used to torment him, flick matches at him and say something
> to the effect of "Want to play with fire, little boy?" or "Fire, walk with
> me". Maybe the grandson represents Bob when he was alive (and young)?
>
>
>>>    3.  Who is the Shaman from the David Bowie scence? (I liked him)
>>
>>I'm not sure who you are talking about, since there were two (?) new
>>characters in that scene, one fellow with the white face and long nose
>>(similar to the mask) and another guy who just sat and laughed I believe
>>I have no idea who either of them are, though.
>>
> One of the new characters (man with beard raising his arm) I *think* could
> be the spirit "Mike". The guy dancing around in the white mask *could* be
> someone we haven't fully seen before. Ie: "The Magician".

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> The line that was quoted earlier about falling and falling faster in
> space until you burst into flames.. can you remember from the series where
> they show an Owl in space, a robed figure and then it bursts into flames?
> This robed figure, could he be the person dancing around in the Bowie seen
> who is The Magician?
>  
>  -=*George*=-

	It's not the robed figure who bursts into flames -- what we see is
the triple-triangle symbol spinning toward the screen with a starfield in
the background.  When the symbol fills the screen, the screen bursts into
flames.

	As for the dancing man in the room above the convenience store, did I
just imagine it or was he dressed exactly the same as the MFAP?

	The dancing man had black, flat-topped (Eraserhead?) hair, a long
nose, and a face painted white -- but he wasn't wearing the mask.  It is
"Pierre Tremond" (aka the Boy Magician) who is most frequently seen with the
mask.  One aspect of the white mask which I'm surprised to see hasn't been
discussed, to my knowledge, is that it doesn't have any eyeholes; thus, one
is unable to see when wearing the mask.  If the grandson is the Magician, is
this what is meant by "In the darkness of future past/The Magician longs to
see"?

	Come to think of it, could there be a connection between this white
mask and the white mask (which I presume was Caroline's death mask) that
Windom Earle sent to Cooper?

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