Lynch kit

Dissection, for Lynch, was a minor obsession. Chion writes, "As we know, Lynch had the bizarre habit of dissecting animals in order to piece them back together again afterwards, to put them in bottles, to stretch the skin and organs on planks and then name them 'mouse kit' or 'cat kit'"(181). While the piecing together of the lost or fragmented voice never will approximate the glottis or the tongue, the collection of, say, reports and sentiment that circulates the dead body of Laura Palmer forms a kind of semiological kit that approximates the dead body, a ghost-kit composed of sonic information that obscures the unsettling nature of a more grisly Laura kit. This cloud of Laura-ideals also obscures some idea of an actual Laura, which Lynch turns to, in an anti-sentimental vein, in Fire Walk with Me. Chion calls Fire Walk "a truly generous project because it delves into a character who, after her death, serves everyone as a prop for their own projections and fantasies, in order to say: this character existed and suffered--take an interest in this woman"(144-45).