Ah...! I should read some of him, then. [She sounds interested, too. It's not too hard for her to be interested -- for someone who likes plays, movies, and literature, it's easy to get interested in where the ideas there came from.

Her brow furrows for a second, and her smile slips into thoughtfulness.]

I wonder if the writers were saying something about him. In the game, Locke's so caught up in the past that he, ah, is trying to keep a departed loved one's body intact until he can find a way to bring her back from the dead. Instead of moving on.