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Tap and you'll find there's a back of your head.
Don't tap you'll know that there's none.

Some think there's a real kind of nothing behind.
We ripple between here and nothing.
Or we are a Nothing that's passing through Here.
Or we are the Here fleeing Nothing.
The spill, the line of the spill, the spilled on.

The noback I thought I had, that was like this:
Each thing that ever could be but just hadn't
Squashed up against the slim somewhere that was.
My face was the window. Some slipped through the crack.
The pressure of hadn't-beens equaled mere everything's.

The noback I now think I have's not the same.
Behind me's what's stood on by things that I stand on.
Flavors I've never quite tasted but walked in.
Lights that I've read by but never did see.
A dimness of bodies unmet ununfriendly.

It's peopled like depths of the wide underwater.
It ripples like wind and it's wasteful like rain.
Its colors are bright glows of darkness, like dream things.
Nothing can feel like it feels when I find
Here before me a firm thing that fluttered behind.

(no subject)

Who's supposed to be c. 27 among the white guys in the first seasons?

Jack? Sawyer? Let's see if they name it after him.

Ben was born off-island and is already a grownup in the '80s when he liquidates the Initiative. Actually he may have arrived, or been about to, in '77.

I'm assuming it's not Boone or Charlie.

Ben decided to kill John (apparently) to prevent him from telling Sun that Jin was still alive--something he himself tells her to stop her from shooting him.

The issue of sides is unclear again; it's in the writers' interest to keep it reversing, too. You'd think Widmore's probably on Jacob's side, at the moment, but Eloise was working with Ben--if she and Widmore worked together he'd have told her not to trust Ben, surely?

The statue from the back seemed a bit animal.

They stepped up the pace in the last couple episodes, which were awful, I hope simply because they realized they needed a certain number of episodes free to bring things home properly. Tonight things seem to have stopped sucking, knock on wood.

What building were Cesar, John and Ben in, on the 2007 island?