Desmond Must Deliver Boxed-In LockeApr 17 '07 (Updated Apr 21 '10) Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line Desmond has to save his relationship with Penny. But first he has to save everyone on the island... As I eagerly await this week's Desmond flashback, I can't help composing yet another soliloquy by my favorite Scrooge-ish Scot. I say Scrooge not because he's a self-involved, greedy, bitter old man, but because, like Ebenezer Scrooge, he seemingly forfeited the joys of an epic romance because he felt he wasn't good enough for the woman he adored; it appears the harder he tries to prove himself worthy, the further he gets from what he really wants. He even got an otherworldly visitation showing him how happy he could have been, and he might as well have been only a regretful observer for as much as he changed in his past. His future is another story, however, and I really do hope that he and Penny are reunited eventually. Perhaps all his island heroics will have inflated his cripplingly low self-esteem by then, and he'll realize Penny doesn't need her father's blessing or his money to be happy. In any case, it seems appropriate to me that Desmond is so obsessed with Charles Dickens... This little ramble, to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer, is rooted in the season two finale, with the first two verses set on the evening when he and Locke first unknowingly interact with one another and the third during their dramatic lockdown. The Box Man I was such a poor boy, But my heart would not be sold. I have pondered my resistance Since the day that I first tumbled On the premises. My trying quest Made me land here and kill Kelvin here. Has this all been a test? I'm so far from home. For a man to be Left alone, denied his joy Till his circumstances change, Is cause for crying. Drowned in ale, I fume, "It isn't fair!" Now I know, as I cower in the corner, That this island's a snow globe. All the other places vanished long ago. Time to die. Time to just give up and die. Time to die. Here with Dickens by my side, I'll give up and die. I go leafing through the pages Of my novel, and I'm sobbing as I discover Penny's secret, tender words, For what am I to do? But my despair Is cut short when I hear someone's voice Resounding through the air. I will try. I'll survive this if I try. I will try. Don't know why, but from the sky came the will to try. How I landed back here, no one knows. I had the chance to roam, so I roamed, But reality is bitter. Fate was leading me. Needing me now is John. Standing near me is the box man, And he's acting quite deranged. The poor man could not be blinder If every light in this cursed room was shut off. So I cry out That it's real and I'm to blame: "Please believe me, please believe me, I'm the one who crashed your plane! Not a lie! John, the button's not a lie. Not a lie! We will die if you deny that it's not a lie. John, the button's not a lie. Not a lie! We will die if you deny that it's not a lie. John, the button's not a lie. Not a lie! We will die if you deny that it's not a lie. John, the button's not a lie. Not a lie! We will die if you deny that it's not a lie. John, the button's not a lie. Not a lie! We will die if you deny that it's not a lie. John, the button's not a lie. Not a lie! We will die if you deny that it's not a lie. John, the button's not a lie. Not a lie! We will die if you deny that it's not a lie. John, the button's not a lie. Not a lie! We will die if you deny that it's not a lie." LOST Parodies: Bohemian Rhapsody * I Am a Rock * White Christmas * Christmas Canon Rock * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Christmas in Killarney * Henry the Eighth * Sweet Baby James * The Only Living Boy in New York * Here, There and Everywhere * He Was My Brother * For Baby (For Bobbie) * Sloop John B. * When I'm 64 * The Longest Time * Run for the Roses * You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore * Eye of the Tiger * Girls Just Wanna Have Fun * Leader of the Band * Same Old Lang Syne * Cat's in the Cradle * An Innocent Man * The Boxer * Sparrow * Loves Me Like a Rock * Der Fuehrer's Face * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * Candle in the Wind * Scarborough Fair / Canticle * Hey Jude * Tears in Heaven * Bridge Over Troubled Water * House of the Rising Sun * Lover's Cross * Lasso the Moon * Rocket Man * El Condor Pasa * Hair * Why Don't You Write Me? * The Greening of Belfast * She Wore a Yellow Ribbon * Sons and Daughters * I'll Follow the Sun * What the World Needs Now Is Love * Danny Boy * Yesterday's Men * I Want to Live * Mountains of Mourne * That's a Woman * Desperado * Dance Little Jean * The Tinker * Brothers in Arms * Vanishing Breed * Time in a Bottle * Ordinary Man * Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall * The Black Velvet Band * Penny Lane * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Take Me Home * Goodbye Mrs. Durkin * Ireland's Call * Steal Away * Ride On * Hey There, Delilah * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Under the Sea * Greenland Whale Fisheries * The Island * Bleecker Street * I Will * Hit the Road, Jack * Sing Australia * The Wind That Shakes the Corn * The Hidden Hatch * Poems, Prayers and Promises * My Old Man's a Dustman * Coulter's Candy * Candida * Knock Three Times * I Don't Mind If I Do * We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World) * All This Joy * Overs * Brown Girl in the Ring * Fly Away * I'm Sorry * Hallelujah * The Orange and the Green * Heaven on Their Minds * Burning Bridges * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * Cracklin' Rosie * Annie's Song * Candle on the Water * Shilo * Gaston Poems: Baby Brother * The Pilot in the Pilot * Vincent * Of Sacrificial Death and Life * John the Baptized * Not Penny's Boat * Finding Vincent * I'm Lost Without... * Apollo * A Hurley Christmas * The Once and Future Ben  |
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