Something to chew on for the long TP-less week ahead. Excuse me if I quote, echo, copy or lease earlier insights here: haven't read all the 3.600 posts of so far 🙂
Who was it that showed us the D and the C on the bell that is on top of the square 'purple room' S3E3? It made me think that the Purple Room could maybe be regarded as Dale Cooper's soul/conscience/subconsience, and the bell on top is his brain-skull. Think along: the Good Dale falls from the Red Room to the physical world to get 'incarnated'. On his way he first has to synchronize himself with his soul/(sub)conscience. That is why in the Purple Room he encounters Ronette/American Girl and Josie/Naido. These two ladies are bothering his conscience since he was in both cases not able to protect them against Evil (Mother, devil..., banging on the door to get at the two women). From his subconscience he climbs UP to his conscience/brainskull where Naido adjusts the AC/DC handle (great other theory, don't recall by whom). He sees Major Briggs head floating by -it is future or past?- and Blue Rose is mentioned. Two mysteries the old Dale Cooper wasn't able to solve, that alos bothers him in sleepless night. Only by getting out of his mind/conscience Naido releases Cooper to go ahead and enter the electric circuit to Rancho Rosa.
This 'interstate' situation could explain why Dale enters the purple room through the window (like in a dream, the realm of the subconscious, remember how BOB entered Laura's bedroom), after he lands on the balcony of his own soul. Around him is the sea of Knowledge/Feeling, just like 'heaven island' in S3E8 is also in the midst of an ocean.
That in the heaven/White Lodge where God (Giant/Carel Struyken/?????/Jesus) and let's-call-her Mary-Magdalen reside there is such a same bell/clock object could mean that these guardians of Good are guarding the brains and the soul of...the whole of earth? Maybe that is why God by going up (or down, in reverse?) the stairs is able to project earth and send Laura to earth as a. the symbolic bringer of Love/Good (versus BOB bringer of Evil, dark globe) or b. bait to bring the FBI's best minds (Cole, Cooper, Jeffries, Rosenfeld) in on the situation that had arisen with Teresa Banks.
Or not.
Yeah, I agree definitely that the purple(failing of desire, red and blue together, and returning to desire from failure) room is about facing up with the unconscious, the void of meaninglessness that people recoil from in terror, that constitutes the lack from which all must act and fight from with infinite affirmation. Remember how Cooper saw the white horse of the apocalypse(death rides on a white horse) after laura was torn away from him and he was no longer able to slumber on meaninglessly in the red room under laura's evil spell? The purple room is directly related to episode 8 in several ways: in one way the purple scenes and the white horse of the apocalypse are structurally close, always appearing near each other along the same transitions/switching along the torturous path of thinking-feeling. This also sheds light on the woodsmen's chant about 'the horse is the white of the eyes and black within' and why the horse 'whinnies' as the woodmen walks off onto the night's horizon: the apocalypse is always here, behind everyone's eyes, the emptiness and pain within; now the atomic explosion demonstrates this splitting of the atom as a human tool and thus a similar logic is explicitly used via radio, stores, internet, etc., with a certain twist given to this discovery by the woodsmen who are burnt and seeking pain/revenge/salvation, thus always rely on white, they need it in their weakness/pain.
Notice how the chant says the horse of the apocalypse is white of the eyes/surface and black within; white idyllic good surface and dark underbelly go together and complement each other to create the woodsmen/BOB's every present apocalypse, Laura and BOB together, feed off each other, which is why Mikes arm takes garmanbozia from BOB after he murders Laura and in the convenience store, white silently approves of the situation by turning a blind eye, and even participates in the sacrifices and enjoyment, James getting his share of Laura, and Donna on her coatails, while not really being interested in her real problems, and the community not interested in them either, basically sacrificing laura and falling into a slumber for 25 years. White and black work together, thus Laura and BOB rule together, 'with this ring, I thee wed"(Mikes arm married to BOB, white to black, Laura to BOB). BOB was a reaction to the pain of the apocalypse, splitting the atom of reality, a defense mechanism that covers the horror of it, as long as they are able to monopolize access to their angel, a golden-brown Laura atom, Laura is guaranteed to save them and always remain if they keep chasing it, they refuse to accept that Laura is gone, even though they have ruined her. Further, the giant/old law/briggs etc see the explosion after electricity pages his fancy woman companion and concerns him, he then sees bob and is put to sleep just like the people listening to the chant, he also dreams up Laura-atom as a defense mechanism to the disaster, as enjoyment from violating whites law(white and black together secretly) is drained from his head by the fancy self satisfied woman who sees her chance and takes over as 'mother' reigning with feminine law, everyone must now chase laura-mother, the monstrous experiment model the young girl will be a version of...that tears apart people that good cooper might inhabit(New york glass box)
Why the white horse/apocalypse close to the purple oceans/rooms: the true disaster, the apocalypse, the atomic explosion that splits the atom, is the unconscious itself, a void in the center of the mind-spirit and all of the world where thinking-reality breaks down. The very existence of a thinking-feeling person is the apocalypse, a person forever torn out of nature, banned from the garden of eden, always lacking something fundamental to its existence (knowledge, woman, etc.) which is so traumatic that it cannot think it, not-thinking it is a condition of the existence of thinking, so it must repress certain things, hide, foreclose them, etc.
I argue that both the laura atom and BOB/woodsmen are attempts to hide from the true stakes of the catastrophe and that the laura atom compliments BOB as white does black in the apocalypse chant to give black its cover to take over reality. Remember the purple waves, like the waves in Dune, right before Paul Mua'dib sets off on his jihad, his father tells him, the sleeper must awaken, just like Dougie cooper is doing, but first he must pass through the red room....the giant sleeping back then was trying to hide from the fight, now it is back in their house and the ?????? is how to do this, create a new law, put a halt to tyranny, restore justice, etc. in such a 'world of truck drivers' where everyone decaying slowly, completely under the influence of BOB/laura(time and time again BOB BOB BOB). The ?????? could also apply to dougie-cooper's thinking-feeling, why he is so lost, he lost his entire mental frame that was supposed to be filled by the genuine atom laura and stoping BOB, dealing with what he was lacking, this was all destroyed after 25 years of slumber......
Also, just thought of this now, it is in front of the ocean that Paul Mua'dib is talking to his father about how 'the sleeper must awaken', like cooper with the giant at the very beginning of this season. In the room by the waves in episode 8 we have the giant and the fancy lady, but the giant is put to sleep but in the purple room of today we have a claustrophobic space filled with terror and people move by fear instilled by the 'mother', much like the kid locked up and killed when he alerts the billionaires surveillance of what comes out of the red room, infinite affirmation, etc.. Looks like that fancy lady taking over for the giant as the agent of law and sending laura's golden atom has not worked out too well.......
This room is purple(failing/blueing of desire), and there is always some authority figure representing the law there, father/mother, etc.; thus about how to instill law order, over a chaotic situation in the world, right after confronting lack/void in the middle of all existence, meaning, the law the world imposes on cooper/paul, etc. to prepare them on their engagement in the world is reflected in this room changes in time from the giant and the fancy woman, to the terrible mother since the atom bomb and BOB/Laura-atom responses have dominated the world, crippling people like Cooper who still sought and really believed in the old law/freedom etc., 'anywhere but philadelphia'.
Or not.
Savage!
Thank you Patrick, most kind. Truly Donald Trumpian.
This way of reasoning also hints at why there is resemblance between the White Lodge scene of S3E8 and the opening scene in S3E1 where ????? and GoodDale are in a room with the same groundfloor, grammophone and velvet covering of the furniture with the dark flowers.
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