the Lost round-up

The Lost finale was complicated and compelling, and necessarily incomplete. There are so many unresolved, perhaps unresolvable, plot threads that it would take days of screen time to tie everything up.

A couple of years ago I ventured to guess that the presence of THE THIRD POLICEMAN on the island was a clue -- all of that long and complex novel takes place in a fraction of a second, while the viewpoint character dies. That seems to be related to whatever logic unifies the various stories o...