Manservant and Maidservant Posted by DarkUFO at 6:31 PM (Comments: 0) Labels: There's No Place Like Home

by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Published: 1947
Episode: There's No Place Like Home

Reference: In the season 4 finale (There's No Place Like Home: pt.2/3), when Kate has a dream that someone is in Aaron's room (it turns out to be Claire), she grabs her gun that is laying on top of a book in her drawer.

At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. Is the repentant master a victim along with the former slave? And how can anyone endure the memory of the wrongs that have been done?" Says Edward Sackville-West about the book, 'Apart from physical violence and starvation, there is no feature of the totalitarian regime which has not its counterpart in the atrocious families depicted in these novels.

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The Survivors of the Chancellor Posted by DarkUFO at 5:31 AM (Comments: 4) Labels: Ji Yeon

by Jules Verne
Published: 1875
Episode: Ji Yeon

Reference: Regina was reading this outside the room where Sayid and Desmond were.
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger (French: Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon) is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing vessel, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary).

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The Invention of Morel Posted by DarkUFO at 4:35 AM (Comments: 1) Labels: Eggtown

by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Published: 1940
Episode: Eggtown
Reference: The book Sawyer is reading

A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in the South Pacific. Tourists arrive afterward, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them. He wants to tell her his feelings, but an inexplicable phenomenon keeps them apart.

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Valis Posted by DarkUFO at 4:30 AM (Comments: 1) Labels: Eggtown, The Other Woman

by Philip K Dick
Published: 1981
Episode: Eggtown
Reference: a book that Locke takes to Ben from Ben's own bookshelf, also seen in The Other Woman

The main character in VALIS is Horselover Fat, an author surrogate. "Horselover" is English for the Greek word philippos (Φίλιππος), meaning "lover of horses" (from philo "brotherly or comradely love" and hippos "horse"); "Fat" is English for the German word "dick".

Even though the book is written in the first-person-autobiographical, for most of the book Dick treats himself and Fat as two separate characters; he describes conversations and arguments with Fat, and harshly if sympathetically criticizes his opinions and writings. The major subject of these dialogues is spirituality, as Dick/Fat is/are ostensibly obsessed with several religions and philosophies, including Christianity, Taoism, Gnosticism and even Jungian psychoanalysis, in the search for a cure for what he believes is simultaneously a personal and a cosmic wound. Near the end of the book the messianic figure, incarnated by the child Sophia (a name associated with Wisdom in many Gnostic texts), cures him (temporarily), and the narrator describes his surprise that Horselover Fat has suddenly disappeared from his side.

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Through the Looking Glass Posted by DarkUFO at 8:03 AM (Comments: 0) Labels: Through the Looking Glass

By Lewis Carroll
Published: 1871
Episode: Through the Looking Glass
Reference: Title of episode and reference to the the Looking Glass Station.

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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There ( 1871) is a work of children's literatureby Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, although it makes no reference to its events. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.

Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is loosely based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares. Most main characters met in the story are represented by a chess piece, with Alice herself being a pawn. However, the chess game described cannot be carried out legally due to a move where white doesn't move out of check (a list of moves is included - note that a young child might make this error due to inexperience). The looking-glass world is divided into sections by brooks, with the crossing of each brook usually signifying a notable change in the scene and action of the story: the brooks represent the divisions between squares on the chessboard, and Alice's crossing of them signifies advancing of her piece one square. The sequence of moves (white and red) is not always followed, which goes along with the book's mirror image reversal theme as noted by mathematician and author Martin Gardner
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Catch-22 Posted by DarkUFO at 5:04 AM (Comments: 4) Labels: Catch-22

By Joseph Heller
Published: 1961
Episode: Catch-22
Reference: Book that the Parachutist had

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Catch-22 is a satirical, historical fiction novel by the American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. The novel, set during the latter stages of the Second World War from 1943 onwards, is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the Twentieth Century.[2]

The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, and a number of other characters. Most events occur while the airmen of the Fighting 256th (or "two to the fighting eighth power") Squadron are based on the island of Pianosa, west of Italy. Many events in the book are repeatedly described from differing points of view, so the reader learns more about the event from each iteration. Furthermore, the events are referred to as if the reader already knows all about them. The pacing of Catch-22 is frenetic, its tenor intellectual, and its humor largely absurd, but interspersed with grisly moments of realism.
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Evil Under the Sun Posted by DarkUFO at 5:09 AM (Comments: 2) Labels: Exposé

By Agatha Christie
Published: 1941
Episode: Exposé
Reference: Book Sawyer was reading when Nikki asked him for a gun

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A quiet holiday at a secluded hotel in Cornwall is all that Poirot wants, but amongst his fellow guests is a beautiful and vain woman who, seemingly oblivious to her own husband’s feeling, revels in the attention of another woman’s husband. The scene is set for murder, but can the field of suspects really be as narrow as it first appears?
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The Fountainhead Posted by DarkUFO at 3:49 AM (Comments: 11) Labels: Par Avion

By Ayn Rand.
Published: 1943
Episode: Par Avion
Reference: Book Sawyer was reading

Outline
The Fountainhead examines the life of an idealistic young architect, Howard Roark, who prefers to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision by pandering to the prevailing taste in building design.
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