Black
For the Freemason tradition, black
represents something unknown, and undesired.
For example, when an election is held, members must vote by
placing either a white or black
cube in the ballot box – the cube holds veto power, and so
it takes just one for a hopeful to be
rejected. Notice that the shape of acceptance is a circle. (Claudy, 1949)
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As well, for Masons, the north is
represented by black – it is the last place the sun, or
‘light,’
reaches. It starts in the east, next the south, then the west,
and finally the north. It is a
place of darkness (Claudy, 1949) – showing the poignancy of
the ‘northern’ in the title of
“The Great Northern
Hotel.”
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A more obvious reference to black in Twin Peaks is The Black Lodge.
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Also, the plotline gets darker and darker as the setting
moves
farther and farther north.
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There is also Agent Coopers addiction to
black coffee – “black as midnight on a moonless
night.” (Episode One)
In Freemasonry, the moon “governs and rules the night”
(Stevenson, 1988) – so a moonless night is a time and space
without a watcher or ruler – the chaos of no authority. This
is the second life that Laura
led – one which her parents and friends held no knowledge
about. (Lynch, 1990)
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In the chess game played by Windom Earle
and Agent Cooper,
Windom controls the lives and deaths of the townspeople through
his black chess pieces. (Episode Twenty-One)
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Nancy or, as she’s more commonly
referred, Blackie, is the Madame of the escort ring that
Laura Palmer was involved with before her untimely death. She
played a role in the clandestine life which Laura led.
Blackie holds the answers to many of the questions surrounding
Laura’s brutal murder. (Episode Twenty-Eight)
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