Thanks for the welcome, Yuzi
. I wonder, now that its official, if Charlie's "Angels" (Marys) will find a new home or come back into play in the story. Perhaps Mr. Eko will request their presence, after they have been cleaned out. BTW, is Eko Catholic or Episcopalian; the priests spoke English in "23rd Psalm." And is this another literary allusion? I.e., Mr. Eko versus Umberto Ecco, author of
The Name of the Rose. Oops, Bernard"s wife is named Rose.......hmmmm!
Something else about U. Eco he was a professor of Semiotics. Check this out.... Liinguistic and Cultural Semiotics is a branch of communication theory that investigates sign systems and the modes of representation that humans use to convey feelings, thoughts, ideas, and ideologies. Semiotic analysis is rarely considered a field of study in its own right, but is used in a broad range of disciplines, including art, literature, anthropology, sociology, and the mass media. Semiotic analysis looks for the cultural and psychological patterns that underlie language, art and other cultural expressions. Umberto Eco jokingly suggests that semiotics is a discipline for studying everything which can be used in order to lie." (1976, p7). Whether used as a tool for representing phenomena or for interpreting it, the value of semiotic analysis becomes most pronounced in highly mediated, postmodern environments where encounters with manufactured reality shift our grounding senses of normalcy.
More info here
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/semiotics_este.html
