LOST: Dharma Bums?

Just thought of a weird LOST connection to Jack Kerouac. When I was in high school, I read Kerouac's books and was in that whole mindset of takin' off on the road and having adventures.

We've learned in Season Four that Ben uses the alias "Dean Moriarty" when he travels off the island.  As many LOST bloggers have noted, Dean Moriarty was the alias used for Neal Cassady in the famous beat novel by Jack Kerouac , On the Road.

And just today, my ancient stony mind remembered my second favorite Kerouac book, The Dharma Bums.  I liked this book because it took place in Northern California and one of the characters was based on Grass Valley poet Gary Snyder (Japhy Ryder), who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.  Kerouac also describes hearing Allen Ginsberg perform his famous poem HOWL (Wail in the book) in San Francisco.

Can't see any other LOST connection than the title, can you?  Nuff said.