It's 9:41, 58 degrees, and I'm flunking out. Time to bear down.

senior member; senior counsel

Even though I was an enthusiastic Lostie from the start, I was grateful for the Guide, if only because it reassured me that I wasn't the only one having trouble keeping track.

The disciplinists saw them as dangerously corrupted and therefore in need of drastic purification rites; the diversifiers, to cite the historian Barbara M. Brenzel, professed a strong faith in the inherent innocence of children; they would save all wayward children by giving them the environment in which to reform and flourish (Daughters of the State, MIT Press, 1983). Flourish is the key word here. Its analogue in disciplinist circles might be submit or obey.