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RAW, Operation Mindfuck e Lost

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"Back in the late 80's/early 90's I devoured everything RAW had published to date. I have often wondered if Lost isn't the most recent incarnation or effort of "Operation Mindfuck". The writers are certainly intelligent enough to pull it off.

I found a couple of references to RAW as he pertains to Lost around the net:

"The only number was always sort of a key number was 23, and anybody who knows anything about Robert Anton Wilson or any of his writing can read into that what they will. That's an important number in terms of the scheme of the show." -Damon Lindelof
http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Kristin/Trans/Lindelof/index2.html

"J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof: I never thought I'd live to see the day when obscure references from Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus Trilogy and Kerry Wendell Thornley's Principia Discordia would inform a mainstream television series on a major network."
http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2006/01/brilliant-25-of-2005.html

The one thing that kind of sucked me into the show, ..., was when Michael cited the Flatiron building in New York as his inspiration to be an artist. Check out this tidbit:

"New York City's Flatiron Building, on 23rd Street, is shaped as a triangle. This shape caused frequent winds, which would stir ladies' skirts, revealing ankles which, in the early years of the Twentieth Century, were seldom seen in public. Rogues would loiter around the Flatiron Building hoping for glimpses. Local constables, shooing such rogues away, were said to be giving them the 23 Skidoo."
http://www.answers.com/topic/23-skidoo

If you scroll down after clicking the above link, you'll also find that the 23rd chapter of Aleister Crowley's "Book of Lies" (published in 1913) is called "Skidoo".

I feel hopeful that the show might either be informed by the various satellites of Operation Mindfuck, or, better yet, IS a satellite. At the very least, the mindset I developed to deal with the models presented by Wilson are in full buzz when I watch Lost, and I bet you know exactly what I mean. "

http://www.dharmasecrets.com/forum/index.php/topic,1379.msg17115.html

http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Mindfuck

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