Anyone out there ever read Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.? It's a classic novel for disaffected high schoolers who are being awakened to amazing fiction and what it can do to to their brains and the way they see the world. The first line is "Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time." Just like it sounds, the main character lives in every time period of his life simultaneously. Just like Desmond! It's one of my personal faves and I'm sure the producers have read it.

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"Helen, do you remember that authentic Australian walkabout I told you about?"

When Desmond started becoming unstuck, Kilgore Trout was the first thing that popped into my mind. I shouted out loud when Daniel actually used the term "unstuck in time".

Me too! I shouted it out too! You must be my evil twin. Or...am I your evil twin?

(Evil twin is another connection to Lost, isn't it? Wow, I wasn't even trying. Lost is everywhere!)

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"Helen, do you remember that authentic Australian walkabout I told you about?"

I need to read this book.

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I think I do too!

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Please don't give up, Des. Because all we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And you have her. I will wait for
you. Always. I love you, Pen

DESMOND: I love you, Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you!
PENNY: I love you too.
DESMOND: I don't know where I am, but--
PENNY: I'll find you, Des--
DESMOND: --I promise--
PENNY: --no matter what--
DESMOND: --I'll come back to you--
PENNY: --I won't give up--
BOTH: I promise. I love you.

To tsimer and Wednighter:
Even if it didn't have a lost connection, I'd HIGHLY reccomend it.
It's mandatory for anyone who wants to consider himself well read.
It's also short and not too difficult dispite the herky-jerky timeline.

There are more literary references in this series than I've ever seen in anything.
Finally my reclusive bookworminess pays off.

I saw the movie when it came out in the early 70's, just a few years after the book came out. It is no substitute for the book but I did like it. It is available on VHS - I bought it for my son after he read the book a few years back. Kirk V. died just a year or two ago

Big ups to Kirk V. he's a mad writin genius.

Don't tell me how it ends.

I think I need to read Cliff's Notes.

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`Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!'

-- Alice, from “Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland”

NIIICE!! I love that book but didn't think of it until just now!