Might well be that the series will end with quoting the opening few lines of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets:
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Clearly the losties are lost not only in space, but also in time. The island is somehow interwoven with time, such that past, present, future are indistinct, circular, recurrent…and certainly not representative of the ordinary works’s linear time experience and progression.
Other connections with the Four Quartets:
Desmond’s Premonitions
Babies dying: (”in our beginning is our end”)
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