Looking Glass Station - Underwater Hatch

We’ve all witnessed the prominence of books and other works of literature on Lost. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland precursor Through the Looking Glass has been adopted as an episode title and name of an submerged radio station. Charley used to refer to Hurley as Captain Kurtz, a character from Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, and more recently it has been used in reference to Locke. The crashed parachuter was carrying a copy of Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, and the list goes on. I’ve read on other Lost blogs recently that on episode 4 of this season, titled Eggtown, Adolfo Bioy Cesares’ ‘The Invention of Morel’ will be featured prominently, being read by either Locke or Sawyer (the island’s two most avid readers). The book, inspired by the author’s childhood fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, is set on a mysterious island and tells the story of a bizarre romance filled with suspense and mystery. Many have compared it to the workds of Philip K. Dick, who is rumored to have a book featured in the same episode. Similarities have also been drawn between Morel and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, which is in front of the orientation tape in the episode ‘Orientation’. The book has been out of print since the 80s (at the latest) and has just recently been reissued by a small publishing house New York Review Books. I’m not sure if all these connections mean anything, but it is interesting to consider.