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For those who are as hooked on Lost as I am,
I saw a "clue" of sorts in Desmond's library inside the hatch. In last week's episode he tells Jack and Locke that the Dharma Orientation film is on the bookshelf behind "Turn of the Screw." They check and pull out said book and find the film.
They very clearly show the cover of the book. I recognized it as "Dover Thrift Edition." These are slim volumes that cost $1 or $2. I ALSO remembered that they were fairly new when I worked at Waldenbooks in 1991.
I checked the copyright on amazon, and sure enough it is 1991. Amazon listing
Now here's the issue. The Dharma Initiative was begun in the 1970s, and then there was an "incident" and then they had to change it up so a button had to be pushed every 108 minutes. The film that describes this procedure was dated 1980.
The hatch has been situated on the island since the 1970s, over a decade before Dover published Turn of the Screw.
Is this a mistake by the producers? I don't think so. It has been discussed that nothing happens on that island by accident. The camera very clearly showed the cover of the book. It's a clue, but to what? How did that book get there?
allen
I saw a "clue" of sorts in Desmond's library inside the hatch. In last week's episode he tells Jack and Locke that the Dharma Orientation film is on the bookshelf behind "Turn of the Screw." They check and pull out said book and find the film.
They very clearly show the cover of the book. I recognized it as "Dover Thrift Edition." These are slim volumes that cost $1 or $2. I ALSO remembered that they were fairly new when I worked at Waldenbooks in 1991.
I checked the copyright on amazon, and sure enough it is 1991. Amazon listing
Now here's the issue. The Dharma Initiative was begun in the 1970s, and then there was an "incident" and then they had to change it up so a button had to be pushed every 108 minutes. The film that describes this procedure was dated 1980.
The hatch has been situated on the island since the 1970s, over a decade before Dover published Turn of the Screw.
Is this a mistake by the producers? I don't think so. It has been discussed that nothing happens on that island by accident. The camera very clearly showed the cover of the book. It's a clue, but to what? How did that book get there?
allen