Is this Gale's real origin? Link

[IMLOSTRU?]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055207/plotsummary

Strange how it may fit...military, Saiyeed (SP), and the look he gave him?

[jmb3rg3r]

Not the only similarity...

http://www.egoplex.com/2006/01/some-lost-message-board-threads-worth.html

The full text of the book can be found here. If you take a good look, you will find several of "the numbers" popping up. I couldn't just leave it at that, however. A quick review reveals that castaways -- who arrive by aircraft crash, despite the era of the story -- are stuck there for four years. Captain Nemo makes an appearance 16 years after kidnapping a French researcher from a boat (!).

The Mysterious Island is populated with wild boars, exotic (and climatologically improbable) critters like kangaroos and koala bears, a strange man with a bushy beard and ratty clothes, homey caves, magnetic rocks, mysterious French maps, patrolling sharks, the remains of a wrecked ship, pirates, and multiple, sinister groups of Others.

There's also a volcano under the island -- which many have speculated, with good reason, may be the case on Craphole Island as well. Sawyer's crack about Mount Vesuvius last week -- strongly highlighted by Jack grilling him about why he chose that particular island -- and the Black Rock, which strongly resembles a ship landlocked by the explosion of Krakatoa, among other clues.

[TheBigCat]

This has all been discussed in the Literary Allusions thread.

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