Movie: TwinPeaks This is a clip from the bizarre late 80s television series Twin Peaks, which featured demonic goings-on in the otherwise sleepy Northwest lumber village of Twin Peaks. In this particular scene, Donna and Matty sing back-up for the (demonically possessed) James: Donna is James' current lover, but it's always troubled relationship, to say the least. James (ill-advisedly) picks the ominously entitled song 'Just You' to croon to two women: which, then, is the 'just' one? As the scene heats up, the looks between the three begin to smolder, first with desire, and then with jealousy. As in the Sappho poem 31, we have here a love-triangle based on looks: both how one looks (James is simmering with hunky masculinity; the women scintillate with late 80s hair-dos), and who is looking at whom. For Sappho, the man 'seems like a god' because he is in love with Sappho's inamorata: in this clip, James seems like a god both for his looks and because its obvious that another woman wants him! It's too much for Matty; as in the Sappho poem, the woman has a total melt-down. Matty breaks off the song and runs from the room? James swoops her up in his manly arms, and asks what the matter is? Matty confesses that "I'm trembling, James -- you made me!" Here is the power of love in its raw, Sapphic, terms: that it can cause the body (as with a fever or a plague) to tremble and sweat. In essence, in both Twin Peaks and Sapphic poetics, desire is but the first step towards death.