Lostness

A solution to the 'lostness' of the modern world—and a guide to reading literature. ❋ Eric Ormsby (2010)

Indeed, they hold out "Homeric polytheism" as a solution to the "lostness" of the contemporary world. ❋ Eric Ormsby (2010)

I'd be afraid of feeling disillusioned or disappointed once the halo of "lostness" had faded--and perhaps even more afraid that they'd feel the same about me. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2008)

At face value, this woman's story is bound to cause a rise of sympathy -- what could be more beautiful than a woman who had experienced this kind of lostness to find herself restored to wholeness? ❋ Heidi Hess Saxton (2006)

Southern Baptists on Tuesday overwhelmingly adopted major changes to tackle shrinking membership and to penetrate the "lostness" of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was about New York's anomie: its lostness and confusion including my own in the time of the big exodus to the suburbs. ❋ Barbara Probst Solomon (2011)

In the Sabbath, we are not faced with lostness and emptiness, but with found-ness and renewal. ❋ Bryan Maygers (2011)

That part of the book is supposed to be living enough to be realistic, but it's also supposed to stand for a response to lostness and what you do when the things you thought were going to make you OK, don't. ❋ Intertribal (2010)

With other words with his emotions he feels more than sorry about their lostness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then one day I sat at my desk, hoping some creativity would filter into my “lostness.” ❋ Jack Canfield (2010)

For me, I have read Relic tell people of their lostness and of his group's perfection, on virtually every posting, now for nearly a year. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"What New York City is to us has this real lostness," Josh Safdie said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For people who have vacationed in Maine during a bad weather spell, the book functions as a pretty cathartic metaphor for their own experience of miserable lostness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Carole McDonnell 3:45 pm: Being an outsider and lostness, definitely, is in SF. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The 1970s was a decade of lostness for the American people, with wavering or [obliteration] of [compass] points they had [once thought] permanently fixed. ❋ Luddz (2015)

A: "So let me [get this] right...You've seen all [4 seasons] and you can tell me what happening." B: "[Ummmm]. No. Sorry." A: "You are so Lost on LOST." ❋ Geniusonwheels (2009)

*watches a video* *"[How about] we don't pay [the bills]? [YOLO] bitches"* *laughs* I fucking lost it ❋ HotToLanguage (2015)

[John Locke]: "You see this little hole? This [moth's] just about to emerge. It's in there right now, [sturggling]. It's digging it's way through the thick hide of the cocoon. Now, I could help it - take my knife, gently widen the opening, and the moth would be free - but it would be too weak to survive. Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it." ❋ Crazyrabbits (2005)

Did you [watch Lost] [last] [Wednesday]? ❋ Heather (2005)

1: Lets go [watch Lost]! 2: "Where are we? Are we lost? Why are these people attacking us? Why did our [plane crash]? Hey! that guy was dead! What?! Why? Where? How? WHEN?" 3: "What just happened? 4: "I took a right turn and then a left turn at [the dirt road]." "No, you took 2 left turns, and that was a brick road." "Great! Now we're lost." ❋ VisOraK (2009)

1."Dude, can you hear that?" "Hear what?" "Those [whispers]! WE'RE NOT ALONE!" "Man, you are so LOST!" 2. "Aw crap, I forgot my [wallet] at the restaurant." "WE HAVE TO [GO BACK]!" "Stop being LOST and just turn the damn car around!" ❋ Rvxen (2009)

[The only] [reason] I watch [t.v]. is because of Lost. ❋ Tammy Nova (2009)

A quick way to spot if a story is [losting] is to look for a situation in which an answer to [a story's] various questions can simply and easily be answered, only for the story to not do so. Here are a few examples: 1) Lost: After spending an entire season building up the suspense and mystery of [the Island's] native inhabitants, known as the "Others", one of the survivors of the plane-crash comes face-to-face with an "Other". The survivor asks "Who are you people?", to which the "Other" replies, "It doesn't matter who we are", thus effectively telling all the loyal fans who cared about this storyline to go screw themselves. 2)Half-Life 2: In the first Half-Life, you play through the eyes of [Gordon Freeman], and thus are purposely not told the answers to many mysteries in order to obtain the illusion that the player is just as confused as anyone else is in the story after an alien-invasion takes place. However, ten years later, during Half-Life 2, you are surrounded by dozens of friendly characters who all know exactly what happened during the events of the first Half-Life. Despite this, no answers are given, leaving fans to read separate books and searching for hidden audio files within the games to [fill in the blanks] to the story. ❋ Jbrew (2007)

Person 1: Did you see LOST last [wednesday night] on [ABC]? Person 2: Hell yeah! Only prisses [don't watch that] show. ❋ Whoa (2005)