Michael J. Dillon

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A few weeks back, my aunt wrote, published, and began selling her own book on Lost Mind Games. It’s a puzzle book, not a longwided description of the TV show itself. Actually it’s pretty good. (I’m not kidding, go buy it.)

The very idea that someone can do that all without a publishing house, then directly go to the public is a pretty neat thing. Probably book worthy, in and of itself, but I digress…

Anyway, it came time to write my review for amazon.com, and the following is what came forth:

A great way to pass the time,

March 25, 2008

By Alexander Hartdegen - See all my reviews

In a fortuitous coincidence, when the great powers of the world decided to embrace madness over reason, war over peace, and to send their great weapons against one another, I found myself deep underground in an almost completed government research facility.

I was only supposed to be there to make a delivery of equipment, but once I felt the ground began to shake as the great disaster unfolded on the surface, I knew I would find myself alone in that cavernous tomb for quite some time to come. The lab wasn’t supposed to fully staffed for at least three more months and the first crews weren’t going to report the until the next week. I was just the delivery guy.

As the days turned into weeks, and the weeks into years, I began to explore my surroundings. I found a vast array of scientific equipment, banks of computers, and volumes upon volumes on every scientific theory from electromagnetism to astrophysics.

Also, in a different room I stumbled upon a well worn and dog eared copy of this volume, LOST Mind Games. I used the quizzes and games to keep my sanity as I spent the ensuing decades studying and learning all that was written in the other tomes.

I began with math, and then to physics, and from there into relativity. It was at this point that I was able to develop a solution to the Grand Unified Theory of Everything.

If you are reading this message, then I was successful in trying to send two messages back across the barriers of space and time. The first was to the leaders of the great nations of the word, telling them of what would happen should they continue down their warlike ways. The other was much further back, to the early twenty first century, a review of the wonderful book which kept my sanity through the many decades.

Thank you Anne Dawson. If you are seeing this, then your book may very well have saved the world.