Who would you rather kill, JFK or Laura Palmer?
January 10, 2008
Even Agent Cooper wants the Torah, that November day in Dallas, impossible to solve, easy to understand. It’s easy for the police because they look at the newspaper longer. Coincidences conspire toward the infinite. The author’s name: the letter D is used four times: the reader. After hundreds of metaphors try to become stairs and mirrors, readers from other nations build in the temple of the article. They add their own centuries, the temple of every possible mathematical operation, bullet wounds in the body.
Three!, says a coroner with the confidence of a first grader whose grandmother (who thinks the child’s a genius) holds up three fingers. No one can even agree on the temperature at the time. He is the president, facts accrue until they fall into mysticism. Nobody knows who killed JFK, implicating millions.
So that’s the nature of the impossibility of reality, that woman of regal proportions in fur, bejeweled by a grand stair and a chandelier, made up to look thirty-two, but near, is fifty-some, the fox in the light, fake. Wait - the fox, dead, is real.