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- From: gswan@psych.toronto.edu (George Swan)
- Subject: Re: Jacobs Ladder
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.135054.7947@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Dec29.022747.3990@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Dec29.024833.14102@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1992Dec29.033625.11670@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:50:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.033625.11670@rigel.econ.uga.edu> hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.024833.14102@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> kinsman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Aphoriel/Kinsman) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec29.022747.3990@news.eng.convex.com> ramon@convex.com (Ramon Dominguez) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Dec29.020157.11546@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> kinsman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Aphoriel/Kinsman) writes:
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- Various people have posted interesting explanations of "Jacob's Ladder".
- Several of the more recent ones have confused two of the characters.
- There is a mysterious stranger, who tells our hero that he was an
- participant in a secret mind control, drug experiment. Then there is
- the more important character, Louie, played by Danny Aeillo (sp?), who
- our hero thinks of as his chiropractor. Recent posters have referred
- to the mysterious stranger as Louie.
-
- The chiropractor is the more important character, he gives our hero
- important spiritual advice, displays super-human powers when he rescues
- our hero from the VA hospital. I believe that "Louie" is actually
- supposed to be "Lucifer".
-
- I watch for name clues like this nowadays. I saw "Angel Heart" with
- a friend of mine
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- who said it was obvious to her that Robert Deniro was the devil from
- the first scene, when he is introduced as Mr. Louie Cypher. I felt
- dim that I had been led astray by the cipher bit, and decided to
- always watch for clues like this in the future.
-