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Baron Marvelous (from August 2017)

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  ANDREW W. GRIFFIN  |  AUGUST 2, 2017 CATEGORY:  DUST DEVIL DREAMS OKLAHOMA CITY – Until today, I had never heard of the 1891 book  E xtraordinary Experiences of Little Captain Doppelkop on the Shores of Bubbleland , written by one Ingersoll Lockwood. Why did that obscure children’s book title – from over a century ago – capture my attention? Because it is one of the many odd and strangely prescient books Lockwood wrote. And that name, “ Doppelkop ”? The nickname of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper’s Black Lodge doppelganger is known as “ DoppelCoop . ” Now, I have not read this book, obviously, only having just learned about it. But “Bubbleland” is curious, only in that the  Black Lodge enters our earthly plane via the detonation of the first atomic bomb  at Trinity site at White Sands, New Mexico on July 16, 1945.  Reddit  fans of  Twin Peaks  speculate that DoppelCoop is trying to kick off a nuclear war to allow more Bl...