A couple of things to add...
"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
>> "ABADDON The angel of the bottomless pit in The Revelation of
>> St. John the Divine. Milton uses the name for the bottomless
>> pit itself."
>
> Not everyone studies the Bible.
If you want a less high-falutin' reference, "Abaddon" was also
the name of the giant monster that stomped all over Cardiff in
the S1 finale of TORCHWOOD. :-)
> Look how many people confuse "Apocalypse", which originally
> meant "Revelation", to mean "Armageddon"
People haven't "confused" it, just forgotten (or never knew) the
original meaning. It's just a(nother) case in which a word has
taken on a new, metaphoric meaning derived from its original one.
Like the word "gaslight" has come to mean "to drive mad" because
of the famous film with that title. Or the use of the title "Star
Wars" as a nickname for Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
And speaking of metaphor...what I meant in my previous response
about taking things too literally meant that I wasn't suggesting
that Hurley literally should've asked the question. I was just
using the subject of "asking questions" as a metaphoric way of
introducing the particular reference.
While I'm not inclined to believe -- not yet, at least -- that
Lindelof and Cuse are turning LOST into a theological fantasy,
I'm also not inclined to believe that they just happened to pick
the name from the spine of an ornithological guide sitting on their
book shelf. (Another semi-obscure reference to ponder.) They
obviously (to me) chose the name because of its apocalyptic
association.
-- jayembee
David
The Translucen…
