The Secret History of Twin Peaks

A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.

But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?

Why am I telling you this?" he went on. "A secret's only a secret as long as you keep it. Once you tell someone it loses all its power--for good or for ill--like that, it's just another piece of information. But a real mystery can't be solved, not completely. It's always just out of reach, like a light around the corner; you might catch a glimpse of what it reveals, feel its warmth, but you can't know the heart of it, not really. That's what gives it value: It can't be cracked, it's bigger than you and me, bigger than everything we know. Those tight-ass suits can keep their secrets, they don't add up to anything. This deep in the game, pal, I'll take mystery every time.

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.

Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.

Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.

There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.

The point about the whole subject is this: Once you open the top on this thing, the genie won’t get back in the bottle.

a real mystery can’t be solved, not completely. It’s always just out of reach, like a light around the corner; you might catch a glimpse of what it reveals, feel its warmth, but you can’t know the heart of it, not really. That

A secret's only a secret as long as you keep it. Once you tell someone it loses all its power -- for good or ill -- like that, it's just another piece of information. But a real mystery can't be solved, not completely. It's always just out of reach, like a light around the corner; you might catch a glimpse of what it reveals, feel its warmth, but you can't know the heart of it, not really. That's what gives it value: It can't be cracked, it's bigger than you and me, bigger than everything we know.

We all want answers to the big questions.

Two last telling details from that congressional inquiry: Mrs. Grinder testified that she witnessed Lewis crawling outside, begging for water, in the moonlight. I have examined records of the phases of the moon for that year: there was no moon that night.

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

I’m getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you’d find on those shelves.

We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?

I’m the white rabbit, drawing you closer to the rabbit hole.

Moving forward in time, it is important that we learn to distinguish between mysteries and secrets. Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.

Everyone assumed that Norma and Ed would marry first, but Big Ed — displaying a tendency to hesitate at crucial personal moments that never showed up on the football field — neglected to pop the question before embarking for Fort Dix. Norma hadn’t yet released that reticence was as much a piece of Big Ed as his inability to articulate his reasons for it. Sweet natured Norma, who had stuttered as a child and suffered from low self esteem, simply assumed she wasn’t good enough.

ALAPVETÉS: Egy bölcs embertől egyszer azt hallottam, hogy a rejtély az élet legalapvetőbb alkotórésze, a következő okból: a rejtély csodát teremt, ami kíváncsiságot kelt, az viszont megalapozza bennünk a vágyat, hogy meg akarjuk érteni, kik és mik is vagyunk igazából. Ha az élet mélyén lévő értelem után kutatunk, egy örök talány fölötti elmélkedéshez jutunk. A rejtélyek - történetek, amelyeket azért mesélünk egymásnak, hogy vitába szálljunk az élettel, amely nem hajlandó kielégíteni a válaszok iránti vágyakozásunkat. Rejtélyekből nincs hiány. A földrészünk, a hazánk, a saját földi eredetünk, mind tele van velük, a rejtélyek képezik létezésünk alapjait, időben korábbiak a "történelemről" alkotott megannyi gyermekes fogalmunknál. A mitológia előbb volt, mint hogy történelmi vagy tudományos tényekhez hozzá tudtunk volna jutni, és mint azóta már tudjuk, nagyon hasonló funkciót töltött be a korábbi civilizációk számára (értelemmel szolgált, nem úgy, mint a könyörtelen és közömbös világegyetem), ám ha nincsenek tudományosan bizonyítható tények, akkor a mitológiát és a történelmet egy és ugyanazon valaminek kell tekintenünk. Tehát legjobb, ha az elején kezdjük. Alulírott, eskü alatt: AZ ARCHIVISTA