Not to mention, Penelope (from The Odyssey) weaves a tapestry and insists that she can't choose a suitor until the whole thing is done, which it never will be because she unweaves it every night.
HMMMMM!
a) Jacob's tapestry maybe hasn't been unwoven, but it's definitely a large project like Penelope's was. And it might have been to hold off something that wants to happen.
b) "unweaving a tapestry" sounds a lot like unweaving the fabric of time. (It's not a pun if it's not trying to be funny, btw.) This is more of a universal symbol that I'm trying to establish. As in, maybe time looks like a long strip of fabric, and sometimes that fabric skips a stitch or folds over itself. Or someone might even unweave it to redo something, if that person had the capability. I'm not sure how a flash would fit into this metaphor, since tapestries typically don't just unweave themselves at erratic points. Maybe it points to the weaver, and how fitful he feels at the time of weaving. As in, maybe the flashes are Jacob feeling restless or aggravated. Gosh! I don't know!!!!!!!!! In the end, though, no matter how many things you've done to the tapestry, it's still one whole tapestry. Which somehow makes it easier to accept as part of the "everything that happened, happened" theory.
c) In the Odyssey, it's Penelope doing the weaving. So far I've only tried to apply the idea of time as a woven thing, meaning I haven't figured out what Penny Widmore might have to do with the whole thing yet. Is Penny the weaver? No, can't be. But I might try to look into this part again.
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