Well, you tell me if I’m on to something or not.

In my longer post, I talk far too long about the number 42 (that being the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, as postulated by Douglas Adams) and Lewis Caroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark,” in which the numbers 42 and 8 play a prominent role. Specfically, THOTS is written in “Eight Fits,” fits being what Caroll called stanzas.

Well, turns out that Adams first wrote “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” as a radio series, written in 12 fits. The first four fits were turned into the first book of the series, “THGTTG.” The last eight fits became “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”

That made me delve further, because I truly believe 42 (that being the PowerBall number and the only number “singled out” in parantheses) is the most important number of all. I discovered this tidbit:

· If all of the numbers on a die are added up (1+2+3+4+5+6), the answer is 21. If the numbers on two dice are added the result would be 42. And we all know that 2 dice is a pair of dice, so 42 is “paradise.” (Note, this would further corroborate my Eden theory.)

Ah, it's a stretch, but speculating's fun.

All right, enough of this Carroll/Adams crap!

Though I did find a site in French that mentioned one of Charlie's tattoos was a line from the Beatle's "Strawberry Fields Forever." And Lennon was particularly fixated on Caroll ... So there you go.

Whether or not it actually has anything to do with the mystery of the island?* This was a pretty good theory.* Heh.* Pair o' dice.* *Slaps knee** *:lol2:

Certainly could have come from Carroll...definitely possible!

lol paradise-pair of dice lol thats pretty creative..how did you ever come up with that?

<3mysox

lol paradise-pair of dice lol thats pretty creative..how did you ever come up with that?

<3mysox


And if Danielle, who probably has some sort of Ph.D., were to meet Jack, it would be a paradocs.

Similarly, if they start playing checkers using coins as improvised playing pieces, and somebody makes a single capture (or moves a king), that player might well be making a paradime shift.

TOO FUNNY! LOVE IT!

I can't take credit for the paradise pun. It actually came from (I think) Wikipedia, which tends to be my starting point in searching for the hidden meanings of Lost's symbols. I think it led me to a web site that tried to deconstruct "42" as the answer to life, the universe and everything.

:lol2:man you guys/gals are "punny". (ducks the rotten tomatoes)