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Fans of LOST hoping to decipher the meaning behind the show are being encouraged to read a novel, first published in 1940, which inspired the writing of the TV drama.
Surreal book THE THIRD POLICEMAN, by FLANN O'BRIEN, sold 10,000 copies in the US after it made a brief appearance in an episode of the show recently aired on America television.
Co-writer CRAIG WRIGHT tells the Chicago Tribune, "This book was chosen for a reason. Whoever goes out and buys the book will have a lot more ammunition as they theorise about the show.
"They will have a lot more to speculate about."
The Third Policeman's prologue suggests the island Lost's air crash characters inhabit is an hallucination.
The book begins: "Human existence being an hallucination... it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death." (GES/WNBTI)
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