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'Lost': Go Ask 'Alice' | Totally 'Lost' | EW.com

Lost has referenced Alice In Wonderland often enough now to take it for granted. Yeah, yeah, fantastical tale about someone falling into a weird otherworld that challenges his or her notions of time, reality, and self...yadda yadda yadda. But we run the risk of missing out on added layers of richness and possibly clues to Lost's greater mysteries — or at least a semi-interesting blog entry of dubious relevance — by not investigating Lewis Carroll's book anew each time the show flicks at it. In last week's episode, ''Lighthouse,'' we saw Sideways Jack pick up a thick copy of The Annotated Alice in his son's room and reminisce about reading it to the lad when he was wee younger. The moment reminded us of the season 4 episode ''Something Nice Back Home,'' which had Flash-Forward Jack reading Alice's Adventures In Wonderland to Claire's creepy kid. It also reminded us of the season 1 episode ''White Rabbit,'' which had Island Jack chasing the ghost of his father across the Island the way Alice chased her white rabbit down a hole into a topsy-turvy underworld, part fantastical imaginarium, part subconscious projection, pure solipsistic wonderland.