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I’m wading through the shallows (where the heck are the depths?) of a draft
\nI’ll be stammering through for a colloquium Friday afternoon, the same draft
\ncarrying forward to CCCC in San Francisco two weeks from tomorrow.  But I
\ndid break for Lost<\/i>.  Tonight’s Hurley-centric episode turned open
\nthe millionaire’s jinxed numerology.  I was tempted to post the string of
\ndigits here, but I passed on that idea for fear that, well…I don’t really need
\nto be engulfed by a sphere of bad luck.  The same string that landed him
\nthe lottery mis-guided a cruise-liner crashing on the island in question, which explains
\nthe odd electrical torture episode involving Sayid a few weeks ago.  None
\nof this makes any sense if you haven’t been following
\nthe series<\/a>
\n(why haven’t you been following the series?). But Hurley’s one of the more
\nengaging characters, and, consequently, I found his episode satisfyingly
\nsmart and entertaining for lots of reasons, like when he declared himself "spry"
\nand sprang away from the trap-trigger, releasing the swinging spindle of thorny
\ndeath, just to name one.<\/p>\n

Added: Nixlog’s gone and done it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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