If you've never read The Chosen, I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a lovely book about unlikely friendship, family, faith, suffering, and self-actualization. It's also a wonderful window into turbulent times in our recent past. It's simply yummy. There's a film version, starring Robbie Benson, and my memory of it is that it is pretty good, but it is NOTHING compared to the book. Read the book.

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We never heard the Flight Numbers for the L.A. Reality flight from Sydney to L.A. With all the use of mirrors this season, I would not be surprised to learn it was Flight 518.

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I know Darlton debunked the The Island Is Purgatory theory, very early on in the series. But no matter what the island is or is suppose to be, as I watch scenes unfold in the L.A. reality, it is at times, a spot on metaphor for purgatory, or Hell (hat tip to Anthony "Sawyer" Cooper).

QUOTES:

ALEX: Principal Reynolds was in there, and the nurse. I guess she forgot I was in there. They were...you know...doing it. In the room right next to me. Where they give kids hearing tests. Isn't that totally gross?

BEN: Totally.

ARZT: You know, you really had me fooled with that sweater vest. Linus, you're a real killer.

Join me tomorrow morning for my first reaction to tonight's episode, "Recon," in which Faucke gives Sawyer a mission, and Sawyer gives everyone a lot of lip. Until then, don't forget to vote for your favorite in the Ben-centric episode QUESTION of the MOMENT, right over there in the righthand sidebar, and give the episode a grade up top.

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Cindy McLennan can no longer see straight, so email her something twisty like your speculation about the end of Lost at CindyMcLennan[at]gmail.com, or follow her on Twitter