tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400527692256711896.post6206141507094515476..comments2024-03-22T02:01:29.009-07:00Comments on Above the Convenience Store: Is a Divided Cooper a Defeated Cooper?Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10031273812910794559noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400527692256711896.post-38042155761047250442017-07-13T19:19:24.078-07:002017-07-13T19:19:24.078-07:00Thanks for your note. I think Good and Bad Coopers...Thanks for your note. I think Good and Bad Coopers need to merge. Although the One Armed Man says one must die. We'll see. (I hope.)Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10031273812910794559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400527692256711896.post-34619377983337290392017-07-13T18:34:16.940-07:002017-07-13T18:34:16.940-07:00Some great insights there, John. It's the firs...Some great insights there, John. It's the first time I've read a good explanation for Cooper advising Laura to refuse the ring. And now we're halfway through the new season I think your comment has even greater value. The good Cooper is helpless without his dark side. He is missing a vital part of his nature and finds it incredibly difficult to function or even think straight without it.aldihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287276294798907449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400527692256711896.post-40242181366811780252016-08-09T13:22:53.391-07:002016-08-09T13:22:53.391-07:00We never saw two together outside the Lodge, like ...We never saw two together outside the Lodge, like Laura and Doppel-Laura. What if there is only one, material Dale Cooper? What if the problem is purely Dale's self-conception?<br /><br />Duality is a trap of the mind. Is BOB evil? Not to himself, he's loads of fun! We call him evil because of his impact on us humans, but that limits describing and understanding him.<br /><br />Dale couldn't remember Laura's seductive whisper, "My father killed me" because while dreaming Dale was superego-free and lusty for the victim('s age-appropriate cousin), waking Cooper dualized himself with paladin-goodness and could not access that one essential, transgressive, sexually evil detail out of all the others in his Red Room dream.<br /><br />Every proposition can be weighed as true, or false, or neither true nor false, or both true and false; possibly even all of those at once. Important, difficult propositions are worth considering in their multiple, contradictory configurations.<br /><br />Or you can just sing along with Donovan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37r07eg867Y<br /><br />"First, there was a Cooper;<br />then a DoppelCooper:<br />Now, what is?"prophit1970https://www.blogger.com/profile/14264636350569195193noreply@blogger.com