2020-07-03 4:53:09 ¶ ●

rewatching twin peaks. its central mythology is an immediately familiar gnostic story; a “white lodge” (read: white house) exists a plane above our world, and is where the soul hopes to go when it leaves the body, and a “black lodge” (read: black house) acts as a purgatory where the soul suffers on the way. for all intents and purposes the black lodge could simply be read as the world of the flesh. (jesus, now that I think of it: a magazine literally called “flesh world” in the show seems to represent a catalogue of earthly delights available to spirits from the white lodge).

the more day to day symbolic minutiae of the show still kind of elude me, though. a majority of the extended cast seem to represent a facet or manifestation of another character in some form (the two distinct sets of “mike and bob”, just to name a more obvious example). a TV show within a TV show seems to obviously parallel events taking place within the main narrative, but why? the log lady’s introductions pendulum between outright descriptions of the events of the episode and vague metaphor that seems to have no meaning whatsoever. it definitely seems to be inviting me to build an understanding over multiple watchings.