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Posted on 5/15/09 at 6:53 pm to Croacka
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Who comes to louisiana to eat at J Alexanders??
Guess he's got work down here or something
Said he recognized the voice right from the start...
Posted on 5/16/09 at 2:45 am to Lsut81
Even though I had only heard that the guy from Dexter was going to be in LOST and legitimately asked if he was playing Jacob, I realize I fricked up sharing the information. I stay far away from any kind of spoilers concerning anything, and didn't mean to ruin the opening for anyone. I know I kind of pussed out in apologizing, but I would have been fricking pissed if someone else would have done what I did, so my bad. I'll stay out of the LOST threads next season.
Posted on 5/16/09 at 5:41 am to Froman
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so my bad. I'll stay out of the LOST threads next season.
Posted on 5/16/09 at 7:33 am to Froman
quote:five years of my life, ruined. i will go into season six with a new level of apprehension about life itself and isolation from the unchecked babblings of flibberdigibits
I realize I fricked up
Posted on 5/16/09 at 10:05 am to manwich
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flibberdigibits
Last time I heard that word was watching Joe versus the volcano....
Posted on 5/16/09 at 10:14 am to Croacka
In this episode Jacob was reading Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge", while waiting for John to do his swan dive off the building. One of the editorial reviews of this book on Amazon starts out like this....
Seems rather fitting.
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Collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'connor, published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment
Seems rather fitting.
Posted on 5/16/09 at 10:48 am to theunknownknight
It's not like I really posted in them anyway.
Posted on 5/16/09 at 10:49 am to SouGent
Here's Doc Jensen on "Everything that Rises Must Converge":
To me, that's pretty illuminating stuff.
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As for Everything That Rises..., reader Adam Sroufe sent me this quote from critic Madsen Hardy characterizing O’Connor’s ambition: ''O'Connor...claims that it is her specific goal to offer a glimpse of God's mystery and, thus, to lead readers — whom she sees as, for the most part, spiritually lost in the modern, secular world — back toward the path of redemption.'' That could indeed be Jacobesque, provided he’s good, and certainly fits into my Quibbling theory
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As it happens, Flannery O’Connor’s aforementioned book takes its title — Everything That Rises Must Converge — from a phrase coined by an egghead and fellow Catholic provocateur named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who concocted a theory of evolution called “Omega Point.” Basically, it’s the idea that there is some kind of transcendent entity or consciousness that is guiding everyone and everything toward greater complexity and enlightenment, until everyone and everything becomes transcendent, too. I think. More simply, it’s Jacob’s view: There is a single end; everything before then is progress. Chardin believed his Omega entity was basically Jesus Christ himself. His phrase, “everything that rises must converge,” is a poetical expression of a key Christian idea known in the Greek apokatastasis. It’s like the opposite of apocalypse, or rather, what comes after apocalypse. I’m not trying to get all religious on you, but it is what it is: apokatastasis is the idea that in the end, Satan will be defeated and that all of creation will be redeemed and unified under Christ. “Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself.” (John 12:31-32) Or, again, to use a line from the show: “He who will save us all.” That, my friends, is the answer, translated from Richard Alpert’s Latin, to Ilana’s riddle: “What lies in the shadow of the statue?’
To me, that's pretty illuminating stuff.
Posted on 5/16/09 at 12:38 pm to Fun Bunch
So, I'm assuming the final season will be about redemption for all the Losties, but maybe Jack especially as he seems to need it more than the rest.
Posted on 5/18/09 at 11:04 am to Hot Carl
Just watched the incident again and have a question...
When lepidus was in the boat.. the guy asked Elena if he was a candidate.
A candidate for what???
When lepidus was in the boat.. the guy asked Elena if he was a candidate.
A candidate for what???
Posted on 5/18/09 at 11:19 am to GeauxElliott
A candidate to be a part of their crew I would assume.
Posted on 5/20/09 at 12:48 pm to Fun Bunch
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Here's Doc Jensen on "Everything that Rises Must Converge
Nice find. His take on the finale and the probable loss of Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) is good stuff as well. The character that is Juliet added a lot to LOST. LINK I will sorely miss Mitchell's cool/calm demeanor yet resolute contribution to LOST. Her kickbutt action in the submarine was the typical Juliet that I came to enjoy so much.
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