Puzzle Pieces
The more I watch Lost the more I feel that it is a puzzle that is begging to be solved. And I love puzzles. I've started keeping a notebook with little tidbits I think may be important, or things I've figured out, speculations, anything. Any little thing could be important. Probably most of the ones I pick out are useless and I'm totally missing all the other stuff.
Last week I was doing my math homework while the show was on, so I had my calculator out and added up the numbers in the code out of curiosity. Wouldn't you know it, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 add up to 108. The number of minutes the counter resets to after the code is entered. I have tried and tried to find some sort of meaning in the numbers themselves, but either I'm not looking in the right place or they mean nothing. I have a knack for noticing patterns, but this doesn't seem to have one. I figured out the Fibonacci sequence when I was 13 but I can't break this. (What can I say? I don't have enough homework.)
As a writer, I consider names very important. There are a few in here that stick out to me. John Locke, for instance, was the name of an Enlightenment-period philosopher whose theories had something to do with the utopic society which he believed existed before people became too plentiful and government was needed. (I didn't go looking for this -- I learned it in history class.) It seems to work -- a small number of people on an isolated island, no central government, and Locke seems to be the resident philosopher. There may be no central government, but most people have from the beginning looked to Jack for guidance. Jack, whose last name is Sheppard, probably derived from shepherd, one who tends a flock. When Ethan Rom was around, I tried to rearrange the letters in his name to make them spell something meaningful. I've always been terrible at anagrams and didn't come out with anything good, but fortunately I wasn't the only who had the idea, and I found some better ones around the 'net. My favorite was 'The Roman.' Somehow, it just seemed to fit. Then there is Sawyer, the false name of an impostor. Ana-Lucia, whose last name is Cortez.
All of this may be nonsense and I may be making connections where there are none, but the show makes me think this way.
Last week I was doing my math homework while the show was on, so I had my calculator out and added up the numbers in the code out of curiosity. Wouldn't you know it, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 add up to 108. The number of minutes the counter resets to after the code is entered. I have tried and tried to find some sort of meaning in the numbers themselves, but either I'm not looking in the right place or they mean nothing. I have a knack for noticing patterns, but this doesn't seem to have one. I figured out the Fibonacci sequence when I was 13 but I can't break this. (What can I say? I don't have enough homework.)
As a writer, I consider names very important. There are a few in here that stick out to me. John Locke, for instance, was the name of an Enlightenment-period philosopher whose theories had something to do with the utopic society which he believed existed before people became too plentiful and government was needed. (I didn't go looking for this -- I learned it in history class.) It seems to work -- a small number of people on an isolated island, no central government, and Locke seems to be the resident philosopher. There may be no central government, but most people have from the beginning looked to Jack for guidance. Jack, whose last name is Sheppard, probably derived from shepherd, one who tends a flock. When Ethan Rom was around, I tried to rearrange the letters in his name to make them spell something meaningful. I've always been terrible at anagrams and didn't come out with anything good, but fortunately I wasn't the only who had the idea, and I found some better ones around the 'net. My favorite was 'The Roman.' Somehow, it just seemed to fit. Then there is Sawyer, the false name of an impostor. Ana-Lucia, whose last name is Cortez.
All of this may be nonsense and I may be making connections where there are none, but the show makes me think this way.
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