The Twin Peaks Mythus and the Cthulhu Myth

I've long felt in an inchoate and untheorized or at least under theorized way that you can take the Twin Peaks mythus in much the same way that philosophers like Graham Harmon or occultists like Phil Heine have used it as a fictional map. Yes, I know that Lovecraft was writing fiction. Yes, David Lynch and Mark Frost are creating fiction with Twin Peaks. And yet sometimes you can get some surprising results by using a fictional map for the real territory that you're trying to traverse the situation. Yeah. That at least that's a promising road to go down and see what might come up.

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