AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
Red room evokes more a nightmare version of 50s decor, which at least is usually homey. Red room suggests the opposite of a place.
Rape, murder, incest, abuse. Nothing else has taken on these topics so directly and effectively.
Sesh 2: Beyond Life and Death (last ep of S2)
now listening to class. Corbin coined term "imaginal"; imaginal world is in between platonic forms and material reality (?)
The flashlight in the woods: you can see any part of reality, but never the whole, which is unseeable, unnameable
Annie's psalm
Andy is only person who goes into the lodge and emerges unscathed
JFM confessing to "manicheasm" or moral dualism, but the White Lodge and Black Lodge are "one and the same".
Laura's moves at the climax were channeling Bob, funny they didn't mention.
Nadine's drapes and the red room, and the engine oil
Coopers white-night self, and his shadow side.
JFM: since there is no spatial extension in the imaginal realm, a monster and its cave or horde are one and the same.
Notable how Cooper's manner at the end (when he is inhabited by Bob) resembles Mr C from S3. The special horror his laughter at "How's Annie?" – like, expressing concern for another human being is the most ridiculous thing ever.
Sesh 3: Fire Walk With Me
tv static ≡ s3e8 nuclear stuff
JFM: Lil means that Deer Meadow is not taking place in our reality
Cole and coded communication
Deer Meadow as satanic inversion of Twin Peaks...black lodge has it infested.
Cable (name of Deer Meadow sherrif) suggests electricity.
PF: Some artworks are just weirndess generators (Valis, Twin Peaks, Parsifal)
JFM: all the little haunted technologies (electricity, formica table) represent the return of the banished spirits in the modern world. He says, the problem is we aren't modern enough, we haven't realized the consequences of modernity, and I think I agree with him there? We need to see the other side of our own episteme.
Brakhage obvious influence on atom bomb sequence
JFM: Twin Peaks is where the real world invades fiction, TP as magical working, a hyperstition or hypersigil.