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There is a post about LOST at Doc Artz<\/a>, which takes seriously the revelation that the show is at its heart profoundly theological. I particularly liked\u00a0the artice\u2019s\u00a0way of putting things: in \u201cThe End\u201d what we had\u00a0thought were \u201cflash sideways\u201d were revealed to be \u201cflash upwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

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