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• Big changes at home, work in 'Mad Men' finale

  Mon Nov 9, 2009
  • Sally is without a doubt in line for trips to upstate NY and perhaps out west to San Francisco as she hits her mid-teens and the current decade comes to a close.

• LitV: Daniel Explains "The Variable" of Time Travel

  Wed Apr 29, 2009
  • I missed the "sending back" line, nice catch.

• LitV: Daniel Explains "The Variable" of Time Travel

  Wed Apr 29, 2009
  • Final follow up: For Daniel to revise his theory that "what happened happened" and embrace the variable, it's possible he succesfully jumped in time during his three-year Ann Arbor exile, building on the research he now remembers from Oxford.

• LitV: Daniel Explains "The Variable" of Time Travel

  Wed Apr 29, 2009
  • To follow up, this is why Daniel was crying when he saw the plane wreckage on TV; he learned the story of the island in his Oxford jump and thought that somehow his actions during the jump would have prevented the crash. Afterward, he forgot the details, only remembering the sense of loss.

• LitV: Daniel Explains "The Variable" of Time Travel

  Wed Apr 29, 2009
  • A thought on Daniel's destiny: From the 1977 perspective, it has only been half-fulfilled, as his apparent death will give a certain gravitas to his eventual reappearance.

• LitV: Hurley Gives Miles Family Advice in "Some Like it Hoth"

  Wed Apr 15, 2009
  • Sorry, Phillip K. Dick... was going to refer to him by his last name, but that just read wrong. This is my first post, and I didn't get to edit before the clock ran out, but the exact quote from the book was "the Empire never ended," making me think DHARMA NEVER ENDED.

• LitV: Hurley Gives Miles Family Advice in "Some Like it Hoth"

  Wed Apr 15, 2009
  • Sorry... can't edit: THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED.

• LitV: Hurley Gives Miles Family Advice in "Some Like it Hoth"

  Wed Apr 15, 2009
  • Of all the random literary references in the show (beyond King’s Langoliers), the one that stands out the most to me is Phillip K.