Lost Finale Analysis - The Journal

Lost News — May 25, 2007 at 10:52 am by Santa

The journal is without a doubt the equivalent of the Blast Door map as far as obsession is concerned, even if it doesn’t contain as much interesting information.  What was Ben writing about in that journal.  It has been my obsession for the last 4-5 hours.  And I think (THINK) I have at least 90% of it worked out.  It’s, unfortunately, not very exciting.  For those interested in how I did it…

I took all 151 frame that the journal appeared in and experiment with overlaying them.  Essentially looking for various combinations where parts of words might be clearer on one frame than another.  All enlargement was down with a program called PhotoZoom Pro.  Since some of the composites were made only to solve a single word, I didn’t keep every last one.  Foolish because in retrospect I could have made a nice mosaic.  But hey, time is on our side.  We have nine months to worry about this!  Here are some examples of the various image processing ploys to extract the text.  Click to enlarge.

And Now:  My shot at Ben’s Journal

_/12 An important meeting tonight with (R) and (M) regarding the developing situation. We are now on day 3 of our exodus from the village and I am, I fear, at the limit of my tactical resources. (T)’s agenda, which I don’t question, is however a narrow and difficult one, and I could well wish we’d had time to prepare, not merely for the military strike, but for a surveillance campaign of the beach. We are short on provisions (seasonal) and, more importantly, the long-awaited re-supply of camp gear having been missed (and so necessary!) _____ _____ _____ just as our water supply ____ ___ have been cut off. We look like a very sad sort of gypsy army.

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