"Until the lost becomes the found" Tom McRae- One More Miles

[chani]

And another poet, a French one and who didn't sing, wrote : La terre est bleue comme une orange

La terre est bleue comme une orange
Jamais une erreur les mots ne mentent pas
Ils ne vous donnent plus à chanter
Au tour des baisers de s’entendre
Les fous et les amours
Elle sa bouche d’alliance
Tous les secrets tous les sourires
Et quels vêtements d’indulgence
À la croire toute nue.

Les guêpes fleurissent vert
L’aube se passe autour du cou
Un collier de fenêtres
Des ailes couvrent les feuilles
Tu as toutes les joies solaires
Tout le soleil sur la terre
Sur les chemins de ta beauté.

Paul ELUARD, L'Amour la poésie (1929)

I took a pill, had a nap and then I watched Lost episode 5. A very good episode!

I may be even more sick than I thought but the episode called Eluard's poem to my mind and I think the writers might have read it too. So now Lost

The orange thing in the Korean flashbacks caught my attention immediately because orange was an important colour from the beginning (I recall that shot of Locke smiling with an orange peel in his mouth!). Besides the "tailies" kept looking for fruits...an the orange was the Christmas fruit, the gift fruit.

La terre est bleue comme un orange...

In his poem, Eluard thought of Gala, his beloved wife. The couple was going through troubles, and Gala had already meant to leave Eluard for Dali. The poem is a complex metaphor that seems absurd but is not.  Gala was the Earth because of her name of course but also HIS earth, his anchor. The Earth is called the blue planet of course because of the oceans, but under the sunlight that illuminates it, it becomes orange. That's what Eluard meant. And Gala had blue eyes and was fair-haired (Eluard said "une chevelure d'oranges" in another poem). That poem was a love song about how their young love used to be.

It suits the episode!

In Lost, Jin, the fisherman's son, the son of ocean, was supposed to find an orange love....and her name of course had to be Sun! It makes sense in a Ying/Yang kind of way since fire and water are complementary, like air/earth (it isn't surprising that Sun found her wedding ring in the soil eventually and that Eko asked if she was on the plane with Jin...therefore in the air) and that idea of the 4 elements harmony is on the Korean flag btw.

That couple has always been my favourite in the series and as individuals Jin and Sun were on the top of my list too. They are still. Jin was very heroic during the episode and Sun was extremely touching.

I liked Eko too. It's nice to see former Adibisi playing a good guy. Hurley's manichaean idea of geolopolitics made me laugh (good Korea, bad Korea!).

And Locke is still my favourite, always the gentleman, old-fashioned man, of course handing a hankerchief to a crying woman. Locke who says he isn't lost anymore.

 

ETA: I don't know why I wrote the lefties while I thought the tailies for those who were in the back on the plane...I blame the flu!

Comments

[pfeifferpack.livejournal.com]

Good analysis, Chani! I am also glad you are joining in the Lost love and "get" why so many of us find it better than the average drivel on the airwaves. All those metaphores and subtext make it so much more than average (not as much as the Jossverse, but that was unique).

I dearly love Jin and Sun as well and am delighted they let them speak Korean instead of "broken" English or some such. Their's is a love story worth the telling and I love them individually as well as a couple.

Locke is beyond a marvel, you are right. His character is riveting to watch and has such a tragic past with unjust betrayal that to see him at peace there is wonderful.

Of course I can look at (and enjoy the back stories of) Sawyer and Sayid all day! If I em ever in a plane crash, I'd love to have these men survive with me (sigh........). Enough time on the island and a middle aged, overweight woman might be acceptable!

Hurley is the one that surprises me. I really enjoy his scenes, his take on all the situations and his words of honesty. A great character that I enjoy more and more each episode.

THe only character I HATE (and I really do Hate her) is the new little Hitler bitca who keeps beating up on poor wounded Sawyer for no good reason. The way she treats everyone is less than endearing and I just can't stand her.

Love,
Kathleen

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I'm still a bit guarded about Locke. He is definitely one of my favourite characters as he is so complex, but there are aspects of his personality that keep me from trusting him. Actually, I'm not sure which characters to trust. Because they all have secrets from their past, they all seem unreliable.

Eko, I liked, too - is that the official spelling? I didn't quite get his reason for helping Michael though. Is he the other Locke, sending people on quests or accompanying them as some sort of guide? Why does he have this name? To allude to echo or ecce?

I wonder how Ana-Lucia became the sort of leader she is. I'm getting the feeling that our survivors had a better time than this group...

What was up with the other Others wandering through the bush? And that teddy-bear? Have we seen that before? Are they also survivors of the plane crash? Is it a rival group that split from the original back section of the plane group?

Oh, and the romantic that I am loved how Jin met Sun. It's like a fairy tale turned sour - the poor guy from the fishing village meets and finally marries the rich city girl, but then it doesn't end with 'happily ever after'.

[sweet-lil-rach.livejournal.com]

I love reading your thoughts on this kind of thing! I've never read that poem but find it really interesting, thanks for fleshing out my knowledge there :o)

Have you read Watership Down? My sister's boyfriend thinks Lost has a lot to do with the book, so I'm thinking I'll have to read it!

I liked the episode, too. Not much happened, but it was nice to watch friendships grow and have a bit of character growth before the big episode in 3 weeks.

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

I like it very much. Love it when things fit together like that.

It might be noted that when Sun buried the bottle she buried their hopes and dreams, she also buried her own hopes in dreams with it in the form of her ring. Then she refound them.... for all....

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