RECALL JACOB WAS CREATING A NEEDLEPOINT FROM HOMER'S POEM OF THE MANY FACETED MAN (MANY TALENTS), ULYSSES. AND WHAT DOES MILES WANT? WEALTH. AND HOW DOES IT COME? AS DIAMONDS OF MANY FACETS. DESMOND AND PENNY ARE ONE COUPLE DESMOND DOES MANY THINGS WELL. SAWYER IS ANOTHER MAN OF MANY FACETS. DOES THIS MEAN THEY WILL REUNITE? SAYID IS ANOTHER SUCH MAN OF MANY TALENTS.
THE PHILOSOPHER I. BERLIN CALLED SUCH PEOPLE FOXES; THEY KNOW MANY THINGS. THEN THERE ARE THE HEDGEHOGS WHO KNOW ONLY ONE THING: HOW TO BUILD HOLES THAT FOXES CANNOT ENTER.
HURLEY, THE HUMAN LOCKE, BEN, JACK ARE ONE TRICK PONIES: TALKING TO THE DEAD, BOUNDLESS FAITH, MATCHLESS LYING, SPINAL SURGERY. what tricks they are! THE HEDGEHOG CAN BE A MARVEL. BERLIN PICKS DOSTOYEVSKY: FULL OF FAITH THAT CONSTANTLY IS DEFEATED BY ILLNESS, TREASON, MISFORTUNE, ADDICTION TO GAMBLING. IT IS SAID THAT HE DICTATED HIS GREATEST WORK TO HIS WIFE BETWEEN CONVULSIONS: THE HEDGEHOG WHO SEEMS A FOX. MARVEL AT THEIR GIFTS.
WHERE DO WE PUT FRANK (SEEMS A FOX), MILES (NOT THE MOST COMPETENT HEDGEHOG), JIN (NOT QUITE SURE), AND FARADAY (AS BERLIN STATES THERE ARE FOXES THAT TRY TO BECOME HEDGEHOGS; BERLIN SITES TOLSTOY).
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