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I met Mark O’Brien during the 2017 Twin Peaks Festival in Washington. My wife and I arrived at Mount Si High School for the official festival opening, and there was Mark; taking in the cool air (not too cool) and listening to the sounds before the doors opened for the Festival sign-in. Someone told me …
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Major Briggs had Dougie's wedding ring in his stomach. It has this inscription: "To Dougie, with love, Janey-E." Constance Talbot (who you know is a good soul because she and Albert hit it off) found the ring there during the autopsy. This is about all that's known about it. I went down this rabbit hole …
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Dowsing is a curious technique with age-old folklore to boast it. John Locke referenced it in 1692’s Some Considerations Lowering Interest: “Not of the nature of the Deusing-rod, or Virgula Divina, able to discover Mines of Gold and Silver.”[1] Traditionally, it refers to the practice of using divining rods to locate underground sources of water. To add …
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If you’re looking for a spoiler-free version of this review, you’ll find it here! The discussion below will be filled with spoilers — you've been warned! During my (admittedly brief) tenure so far as assistant librarian over at The Bookhouse, few books have come into our inventory with as much fanfare as The Final Dossier. Even …
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The mysterious narrative of Twin Peaks is what keeps fans engaging with the material, even when they ask what does this mean for television. What is this show? Since the earliest water cooler chat to the weekly articles here, questions asked include what is going to happen, what is its nature, how does it affect …
The consensus between many members of our staff (and beyond) is that there is an element of circular narration happening in The Return. They have looked at this element in many different ways - John’s recent article Cooper’s Time Loop Isn’t Just His, where he suggests that, much like the infinity symbol, Cooper’s loop is …
Part 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return has been declared an unqualified masterpiece by fans and critics alike. The sequences with the Trinity Test, The Fireman and Señorita Dido, and 1956 New Mexico just blew everyone away. Yet it only got an 8.0 rating with Reddit fans, not a perfect 10.0 [4]. With many of …
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Every single one of you who just clicked on the link to this article is thinking “What in the ever-loving hell is this woman talking about? There is no possible, conceivable way that what she’s alleging could be true!” And I know that’s what you’re thinking because that’s exactly what I thought to myself when …
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By Lindsay Stamhuis and Eileen G. Mykkels “A lot of people will say about the show, "I don't get it and I don't understand it." And I tell them it's like a dream. A lot of indigenous cultures, we believe that the dream world is just as real as the physical world. And a lot …
It’s hard to overstate the lengths to which Twin Peaks fans will go to when analyzing the things seen and heard in this show. But, as Dale Cooper himself said, “When two separate events occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object of inquiry we must always pay strict attention.” So it was with particular curiosity that …
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