Names like Jacoby and Lydecker come to Twin Peaks straight from Laura, the 1943 novel by Vera Caspary and 1944 film directed by Otto Preminger. Indigo and Hilary discuss thematic parallels between the stories of Laura Hunt and Laura Palmer.

Robert Engels intentionally referenced Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie when he added the blue rose to Twin Peaks' symbolism in Fire Walk with Me. Indigo and Hilary explore the implications of this allusion and discuss some of the reasons Engels may have felt compelled to link the world of Twin Peaks to the dreamy interiority of The Glass Menagerie.

Read the play online here: https://hama-univ.edu.sy/newsites/humanities/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Glass-Menagerie-PDFDrive-.pdf

Called "Anime's David Lynch", Satoshi Kon cited Lynch as an influence, but some of his work seems to predict rather than reflect the themes of Lynch's films and Twin Peaks: The Return. Longtime Kon fan Indigo and neophyte Hilary discuss Kon's work through a Lynchian lens.

Laura Palmer interacts with two identifiable texts in Fire Walk with Me: William Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring and William Saroyan's The Human Comedy. Indigo and Hilary discuss the thematic resonances of both stories in the film and Twin Peaks.

Thanks to Twin Peaks Blog for the investigations that lead to this episode! https://twinpeaksblog.com/2025/01/02/twin-peaks-prop-laura-palmers-home-university-bookshelf-volume-5/

Mark Frost cited Dion Fortune's occult classic Psychic Self-Defense as a source for terms and concepts woven into the Twin Peaks mythology. Indigo and Hilary are joined by John Bernardy of The Blue Rose Task Force Podcast to discuss everything from the creation of Artificial Elementals to the defensive capabilities of coffee and cherry pie.

Jacques Tati created worlds and films that allowed David Lynch to dream. Indigo and Hilary discuss what made these artists, in Lynch’s words, “kindred souls”.

Sadgati praptirastu, David Lynch, with blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way.

Indigo and Hilary fare forward into the remaining three poems of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and discuss the poems' resonances within The Return.

Read Four Quartets here: https://www.lettersjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fourquartets.pdf