As I said below, there are hundreds of literary allusions in Lost. Some I recognize right away, others I have a vague notion about, and some slip right by me. The obvious ones — like Stephen King’s quartet The Stand, Carrie, The Langoliers, and The Shining – are referenced quite often. But one that I noticed in Season 2 was Flann O’Brien’s masterful surreal novel The Third Policeman. Lost fans would definitely be interested in this book, mainly because of how O’Brien uses and subverts issues of destiny and personal philosophy. Oh yeah. There’s also that strange “hatch”…