Hiking Twin Peaks: An Experimental!? Guide 2-4 Laura’s Secret Diary [Your Persona’s Noteworthies? [YPN].]
….who is Ray Wise? [Leland Palmer[1]]…
Sharp noises…darkness to tunneling backwards out of what? [SM]….corded cable? ….beeping….strange distorted voices [Like the Midget [WRQ].]….hole drilled [PTHM]….two…spinning [SM]…..fisheyes…turning….beeping faster…..extra annoying [MNT]….beadboard [Suspended ceiling, which certainly can be pondered like clouds.]….view of Leland… that’s how crazy he is…right eye blinked…tie… “[I] wave that right.” [IM: PTHM]…Leland….said that after being told he has a right of attorney [Principle]….his tie…diamonds….distorted diamonds [GT]…no blinking…Cooper not moving…panning [very slowly, slightly jerky] left and right on Leland’s face…to bars to left of Leland…there is Hayward…arms crossed in black….bars of light horizontally [DMT]…Hawk POV into hospital…very strange wall tiles [Match suspended ceiling tiles zoomed out from.]…piano in…before he admits to killing Jacque Renault… “Have you ever experienced absolute loss?” [WRQ: HQT: MNT]….[Cooper: “I doubt that any one of us is a stranger to grief.” [IM: Principle: HQT: MNT]…[Leland’s] hands up [PTHM]…form a heart [MNT]… tear drops [MNT: DMT]…. “[More than grief. It’s deep down, inside.] Every cell screams.”….earlier…. “You can hear nothing else.”….ring on right [his left] hand…Hayward open-mouthed and then grabs himself tighter [PTHM: HQT]…
[Hayward: “Parents should not bury their children.” [Principle: HQT].]…[Cooper:] “Do you approve of murder?” [WRQ: HQT]…tree behind Andy…great tree [With some sunny colors: Tree = “In alchemy, a tree with moons denotes the lunar opus (the Lesser Work) and the tree with suns the solar opus (the Great Work). The tree with the signs of the seven planets (or metals) stands for prime matter (protohyle), from which all differentiations emerge. Again, in alchemy, the Tree of Knowledge is called arbor philosophica (a symbol of evolution, or of the growth of an idea, a vocation or a force. ‘To plant the philosopher’s tree’ is tantamount to stimulating the creative imagination (32).”[2]]…[Andy:] “It’s about my sperms’ test.”….Andy…rolled up magazine…. “Want to give it another shot?” [IM: GT]….green jar……Andy stares… “Neighborhood Watch Prevents Burglaries” shown [MNT: HQT: Watching Over Watchers [WOW]]…hits Lucy…knocks down coffee containers [FM]…. mag…Lucy open-mouthed with red lipstick…then to “Rest Rooms” sign on bathroom…up-close shot…no words from Lucy…red line sweater… “Watch.” sign on way out for her [Synchronicity with earlier point, for I was not consciously aware of this spot just up ahead.]…
[Harry: “Travels the circuit in a Winnebago.” [HQT]…Cooper: “Outdoor enthusiast?” [Principle] “Hmmmm.”…. dot tie red on dark blue [DMT]…..gray blue…Cooper… [Harry: “Last of the frontiersman.] They broke the mold.” [IM: LT: HQT]….tree behind Cooper…crazy calculating [WRQ: LT]….donut and coffee framed to bottom left [FM]…. “Mom and Dad” sign… “I Use…”…sign…..black on white…two family photos blurred to left… [Andy:] “Agent Cooper, this is extremely personal business.” [DI]…. “Circle Brand.” [ZM]…up close… “The Giant said [there was a clue out there]” [WRQ: HQT]… “Phillip Gerard, the One Armed Man.”…
To the falls…fade….up close, split like Twin Peaks [MNT: DMT]…water dripping, but sunny beyond…..roof or cliff edge to the left…. “Hot tip.” [IM: FRT]… “Top secret.” [IM: WRQ]… “M. T. Wentz, [the travel writer. Travels incognito, uses only cash, no credit card. No one can trace his identity. A favorable Wentz’ review could be quite useful [Principle: HQT]…Not even 9:30 and you have already done a good day’s work.” [Principle: HQT]]….. “Tricounty Lumber Queen Semifinal” [HQT]….balloons….up on wall….
Horne big circle tie….similar to Cooper….almost exact….dot on blue gray dark…Renault twiddling his thumbs….leather back and elbows…Horne’s hands together [PTHM]…wearing….non-tie…the cowboy double cord [Bolo tie: HQT]…view from behind TV to the small TV with Audrey there [MNT]…pic of Audrey to the left…to the right…dark paint….Jacque moves away from Horne’s fake punch [Principle: HQT]…..red band Audrey…bright…[Renault: “Make no mistake, Mr. Horne. I’m just a messenger. [IM: Principle]…Renault shakes finger [PTHM]…. “[Number one: your business up there is being run by pickpockets and] fools. [A dollar earned is a dollar stolen.] “Are you aware of that?” [Principle: HQT]… [Horne:] “I have my suspicions.”…POV behind Renault…. “You want my help or no?”…finger circle right before that from Horne [PTHM]…circling black mark between Renault and Horne…blurred tall lamp….Horne throws a chair….grabs face to ponder [PTHM]… [Horne: “This is supposed to be an equitable exchange.” [Principle].]…calls?…who? [Jenna]… …“Find agent Cooper for me.” [HQT]….
Dinner… “Special Today” up high on wall….Donna there….Hank…yellow to the right for Donna… “You wouldn’t understand.” [LT: HQT]… “Rabbit chili” [FM]…..mountains of chalk under it [AT]…flannels….mountain by back door…mountain scene sunset by ice tea [AT: HQT]….[Norma: “Going to try to send him our way….I always wanted to try some regional dishes.”[Principle: FM: LT]…“We’re going to trick this place out [like Christmas on the Fourth of July” [IM: GT].]….deer to the right [AM]….of Hank…toothpick….smile on way out….
Yellow to….red…mountain behind with snow…suspenders…multicolored light behind…..nice flannel for him… [Harold: “What should we drink to?…To Laura,] In our hearts and memories locked.” [IM: FM: LT: Principle: HQT]….toast to Laura [Principle: FM]…open box inside complicated…layered….zoomed in [ZM] slowly….blurry table to the right… “Fantasies and nightmares.” [DMT: WRQ: HQT]…. “I don’t have the nerve.” [IM: HQT]….ominous coming in…Donna looking away and listening…. “She wouldn’t be around me at all.” [IM]…. “[Black and dark and] soaked with dreams.” [WRQ]…. “Take me into their control.”…he holds it [diary] to his heart [PTHM]… [“I’ve read this from cover to cover, Donna, and there are no solutions here.” [LT: HQT].]…“People come to me and tell me their stories.”… “About the world, outside.”… “I take their stories and place them in a larger context…“A sort of living model.” [Principle: LT: Paradigm: AT: HQT: Whose story is this? [MNT].]… “Friends”…. “Lovers…[Maybe someday you will too.]” [MNT: HQT]…Donna smiles…looks down…uncertain…sighs…back to…
Audrey video [MNT]… “That’s no reason to circumvent normal channels.” [Principle: HQT]…Horne working Cooper and Audrey… “Special relationship…[You of all people understand her value to me.]” [MNT: LT]….Horne behind Cooper…he is smoking a cigar [Churchill]…..behind him so face can’t be read….too calm…. asks question looking away [Principle]…
Josie back…many boxes….huge double handled saw up high [PTHM]…fishing rod on right [HQT]…reddish counter…angled to book shelves in background…red book up high [LT: Jung’s The Red Book not released for over two decades after Twin Peaks.]…curtains have blue….duck on counter [AM: AT]…flannel and fur….hug…hand holding [PTHM]….tackle box [Principle: Right Tool Right Technique [RTRT]: PTHM: HQT]…..[Pete: “I don’t know exactly what will be buried.” [WRQ: HQT].]…ominously held low note…fades to…
Windy whipping evergreens….pine [WTM: Wood Element, Reminder of the Woods’ Powers]….[Renault:] “Come on dreamboat”… “Daddy’s waiting.”…shaking POV…distorted audio….her [Audrey’s] POV …odd…cards on table and in hands [GT: PTHM]…tie…paisley [AT]…perfume man….cupid on [LT: HQT]… “In a situation like this, you have to handle yourself in a professional manner. [We’re all reasonable people, and what you discover is that something reasonable can always be worked out whenever reasonable people just put their minds to it…” [Principle: DI: DMT: HQT]….gun in Renault’s hand…perfume man shot….straight in the heart [GT: Heart motif connects to Game Theme]…silencer…POV down on them…zooming in [ZM]….bright red carpet behind….Audrey crying in Renault’s arms…fade to black…
Jazzy… “Kindly make another pot.” [Principle: FM]…red scissors….pink stacked boxes of donuts [FM]….holding scissors like knife [PTHM: MNT]… [Cooper to Andy:] “Maybe you’d better get some air.” [Principle: Yes!: IM: HQT]….arms on shoulders….Cooper asserts his knowledge of her emotional situation [“Lucy, I think we’re at the point where it would be healthier for everyone if you got whatever is bothering you out in the open…That much I gathered.” [Principle: IM: HQT].]…Andy through glass [MNT: “The Man behind the Glass” title from the previous episode [2-3].]…arms crossed outside…. [Lucy: “He never exercises. He never washes his car, and he doesn’t even own a sports coat]…I needed some me time.” [Principle]…. “Dick Tremaine”…. “He keeps himself and his car in great shape.” [Principle: Balance]… “Most of his behavior was asinine, but at least he was different.” [HQT]…. [“Are you seeing this, Dick?]…Can you tell me exactly what you do want?” [Principle]….Lucy storms out….Harry nods…. “Highway 9” [HQT]….whistles…. “You’ve been down this road before.” [IM: HQT: MNT]…. [Cooper: “I’ve got a dangerous situation. I’ve examined every possible angle and believe there’s only one way to proceed.” [Principle: HQT].]…“Strictly between us” [IM: Principle: What is there?]…. “Book House Boys” [LT: HQT]… [Harry: “I’ve steered clear when you’ve asked me to…” [IM: Principle]…
Ahhhing odd music comes in just slightly under jazz…moon…angled top our right to our left…black cowboy hat in….blue fallen….Hank….Italian music….man throws his bag…. “Toad”…..big man moved out…clock…hands rubbed together [HQT]….Hank heard whispering as he rushes the man to the bathroom…seeking as usual [Principle: LT: HQT: Seekers seek this.]….odd music in…Hank leaves with wallet [HQT]….
Donna and Maddie there…..POV over counter…blurriness of cake red cherries…..Donna… “I’ll survive.” [Principle: HQT]….flowers to the right of Donna [FLM]…table booths are blurry yellow glass/plastic…. “With or without you.” [IM]…open-mouthed Maddie…Donna seizes…pan out to Hank whose POV was basically given… [ID from wallet:] “Darryl Ludwick…Office of the District Attorney”…fade to…cloths very bright red to the left….like distorted diamond….top 1/3 off….separators between…
Storminess over water [MNT]…POV shot down on Harry in living room with Josie….logs, four, rail in room…wood stove burning [FRM]….white stuffed-mounted sheep goat [AT: AM]…Josie’s leg shown….light to left of Josie….. “You think I got them at Cash and Carry?”…. “Afraid of…[Ben] and Catherine.”….mooted what above Josie…portrait on wall between Harry and Josie….hand on Josie’s mouth… “My God.”…. “You hurt me so.”…then thunder and lightning lighting up behind [MNT: HQT]….two…on table….antler rack behind [AM]….shot with angled furniture in between….angled and blurry…seducing instead of answering….red on her leg….night gown torn….fading into them…on chaise….to man watching…the Japanese man outside….staring…not blinking….fade to…
Black to Santa mug with donuts double stacked to the left [FM]…Lucy drinks from canoe mug yellow [FM: AT: HQT]…blue light outside…. “Who is coming in?”…man with large hat…cowboy shirt [HQT]… “Hi, good looking. [Who do you have to grease to get some coffee around here?” [IM: FM: Principle]…Judge [Principle: Song synchronicity, for while typing this and “judge” freestyled recording hit right when I was on this word. [WRQ].]… “[You’re a cool drink of water on road-weary eyes.] What’s your secret?” [Principle: WRQ: LT: HQT]… “Give us a hug.” [Principle]…“Life is hard dear.”…. “It’s harder in most places than in Twin Peaks.” [DI: MNT: Principle: Gratitude: HQT]…. “I won’t bore you with either one of them.” [Principle]…. “How are you, lad?”…
Blurry blue eagle to the left of Cooper [HQT: What is Cooper’s Spirit Animal [SA]?]… “Have a lot in common.” [IM: HQT]…. “Want to break the seal on that Irish that is stashed for me?” [FM: Principle]… “Winnebago” [NAM: HQT]…… “How do you find this little corner of our world?” [WRQ: MNT]…. “Heaven.”…Cooper responds… “Heaven is a large and interesting place.” [LT: HQT]…as Dick comes in…. “Dick”…said, “Alone.”…. “Nothing else.”… “I’ve been absolutely miserable.” [HQT]….small flannel…she has larger red grid… “It’s everything I could scrape together.” [IM: PTHM]…“I’m completely knackered.” [IM]…“It’s more than adequate.” [Principle]…. “To take care of [, you know,] the little problem.”….Dick left eyebrow rises rapidly….heart earrings [GT]…red… “Say one more word and I will scream.”…[DI] she already was screaming…then screams and holds mouth [PTHM]…out of control…light flash on wall….through window…Leland…doesn’t blink [WRQ]….Lucy crying in Harry’s office…Twin Peaks’ drawn map behind Judge…POV behind Leland….blinds flashing sideways on entire wall…zoom in [ZM] beyond Leland… “A fine, decent man, and a capable attorney.”… “[The law provides a structure [to guide us through perilous and trying times. But requires our submission to which procedures and higher purposes before we assume] [Principle: LT: HQT]… our respective roles in this enduring drama, [just let me say that when these frail shadows that we inhabit now have quit the stage, we will meet, and raise a glass again together] in Valhalla.” [MNT: LT: Principle: SHM: Macbeth: WRQ: HQT] ….back and forth up and down camera work….then storm comes in [HQT]….Leland slowly responds… “Would that it were so.” [Principle: HQT: Magickal Wish]…. “The facilities are adequate, Leland?”…. “Adequate” repeated [MNT].…from Lucy’s convo…Dick compared to Leland…
Cooper shakes his head… “I’ll speak for us all.”… “We have hard jobs.”….they drink coffee [FM]…Native American? [NAM]…comes in…bright red jacket….Cooper senses something between Hawk and her…. “Pilot over.”… “Dine in the Timber Room.”….wife? Cooper…sighs, “Man, oh man.”…
Shot of Great Northern “Lumber Queen Semi-finals”…red sign…view behind who?…black glasses blurred to right looking at Horne…samurai bows…to Horne….dark music in…carved evergreen to his left… “Seattle.”… “That’s not such a long trip then.” [Principle: HQT]…. “Double R Diner” card…. “Ask for Norma.”…could be the author once again [Principle: HQT: MNT: Secrets author secrets.]….calls… “I think the eagle has landed.” [IM: AM]…eagle shown [MNT]…totem [AT]…outside…
“Cousin Jonathan”….taxidermy badger [Pine weasel?] killing a snake on it [AM: AT]… “We all got our job to do.” [Principle]…. “Back in Hong Kong.”… “Mr. Eckhardt.”… “Are there any other complications?” [Principle: LT: HQT]…“Are we suspected?”…thunder…to…
Road House…..staring …at bar counter…. “What is lined up?”….right on the ticket….one blurred beer sign to left of Cooper….
Knock…Hank yells…lights out…flashlight on Jonathan…[Hank: “What’s the deal?” [IM: GT].]….screech…he has sunglasses on…takes them off….Hank thrown over counter…ridiculously easily [LT: HQT]…blue flannel pajamas…hits at him with flashlight…punches and is thrown…throws sidekick…and thrown to the checked ground [CHM: GT]….blood down Hank’s face…thumb [PTHM]….blood on blood… [“Blood brother,] next time I’ll take your head off!” [WRQ: IM: HQT]……slams and breaks flashlight to the left of Hank’s head [MNT: Cooper smashing similarly earlier.]…
[1] “Ray Wise,” IMDB, accessed August 20th, 2017.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936403/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
[2] J. E. Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols, trans. Jack Sage (New York: Philosophical
Library, 1962), 331.