The Times of London has an interesting story on what may be the key to unlocking at least some of the mysteries on ABC's "Lost":

Look away now

A SURREALIST novel written in 1940 has been rescued from obscurity after writers for the television drama Lost let slip that it was crucial to their cryptic plots.

The Third Policeman, an absurdist story about the atomic theory of bicycles and the quest for a mysterious black box, does not seem obvious source material for the most popular American drama ever broadcast by Channel 4. But Craig Wright, a co-writer of the series, provoked a sales surge when he told viewers that the late Flann O’Brien’s book would give them “a lot more ammunition” in dissecting his story of survivors of an air crash on a remote desert island.