You Need To Visit Twin Peaks - Part Three (Preview I)
Symbols For Something Else & The Trilogy Concludes...
When Twin Peaks was first rerun in syndication on the Bravo network in 1993, David Lynch wrote and directed short introduction scenes featuring the brilliant Catherine Coulson as the Log Lady to preface each individual episode.
If you haven’t seen them, each “Log Lady Intro” looks exactly the same; an intensely serious woman with auburn hair and red-framed glasses sits in a chair holding a large wooden log. She cradles the log in her lap like an infant and sits next to a wooden table with a teacup in a room paneled in wood and stone.
The Log Lady then directly addresses you, the viewer, breaking the fourth wall to offer simple statements and elliptical questions. Some of these monologues are outright bizarre, right in key with the show’s overall tone. In hindsight, they seem to reference events of the upcoming episode in varying degrees of metaphors or mind-boggling riddles.
Consider the introduction to Season 2, Episode 2, “Coma”:
“As above, so below.”
“The human being finds himself, or herself, in the middle. There is as much space outside the human, proportionately, as inside.”
“Stars, moons, and planets remind us of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Is there a bigger being walking with all the stars within? Does our thinking affect what goes on outside us, and what goes on inside us? I think it does.”
“Where does creamed corn figure into the workings of the universe?”
“What really is creamed corn? Is it a symbol for something else?"
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YOU NEED TO VISIT TWIN PEAKS - PART THREE
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