I have heard that you wrote the episode in which Desmond takes this book with him. Also that you think that anyone who reads this book will have ammunition as they theorize about the show. Well, I just re-read the book, having enjoyed it many years ago and wanting to refresh my memory and unfortunately, rather than feeling as though I have *any* new ammunition, I just have a lot more open threads. Here are a few thoughts about Lost as it may relate to The Third Policeman:
1. Does this mean Desmond is going to find himself right back where he started?
2. Does it mean that the entire show is really just the guilty dream of a dead murderer?
3. Does it mean that the hatch is a place where you can never take out what you didn't bring in with you?
4. Or that the island is a place where anything you imagine can be created?
5. Is Hanso a new apologist for DeSelby?
6. Will the league of one-armed men rescue our Losties in the end?
7. Or does it mean that if travel is just an infinite number of points of being, that the Losties will find that they haven't actually been anyplace.

I don't really expect you to answer any of my questions, I keep thinking of more like perhaps the "monster" is the passing of pollution on its way to being night. At least if we were to go by DeSelby.

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Wait! I just thought of another possibility, maybe like the policemen and their bicycles, the Losties are becoming the island and the island them!