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Category: Cultural References

Hearts and Minds

 

Michelangelo / Sculpture of David

Locke tells Boone this story while they contemplate how to open the hatch. May be a metaphor for Locke himself, coming into his own as "the Master". Here is the portion of the episode where Locke tells Boone his Michelangelo story, while they are sitting around the hatch

Quote:

Boone - So not to be too difficult, but we've been coming here for two days just staring at this thing. I'm not really
sure what we're supposed to be doing.

Locke - Ludovico Buonarrati, Michelangelo's father. He was a wealthy man. He had no understanding of the divinity
in his son so he beat him. No child of his was going to use his hands for a living. So, Michelangelo learned not to use his hands.
Years later a visiting price came into Michelangelo's studio and found the master staring at a single 18 foot block of marble.
Then he knew that the rumors were true - that Michelangelo had come in everyday for the last 4 four months, stared at the marble, and gone home for his supper. So the prince asked the obvious: what are you doing?  And Michelangelo turned around and looked at him, and whispered, sto lavorando, I'm working.  Three years later that block of marble was the statue of David.

Boone - We're not going to stare at this for 4 months, are we? How are we going to open it?

The Thinking Man

Locke's pose is reminiscent of Rodin's sculpture of the thinking man.

 

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