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Desmond David Hume's story - Lost
Desmond David Hume's story - Lost
Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume. Desmond was engaged to a woman named Ruth for six years. One week before the wedding, Desmond got cold feet and passed out due to binge-drinking. He woke up to find a monk named Brother Campbell, and Desmond decided to join the monastery, feeling a higher calling. Brother Campbell asked him to perform a final service for the order, assisting Penny by loading a number of cases of wine into her car. The two felt an immediate attraction, and she asked for his help in unloading the wine in Carlisle. Two years later, they moved into an apartment together. Desmond visited Penny's father Charles to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage. While stating his appreciation for the bold gesture, Charles made clear his disapproval of Desmond, saying he was not good enough for her. After being unable to pay for a photograph taken with Penny, Desmond led himself to believe he couldn't support himself nor Penny and thinking she deserved better, broke up with her. In an attempt to prove himself to Charles, or possibly to himself, Desmond joined the Royal Scots Regiment of the British Army. Desmond David Hume is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick. Desmond's name is a tribute to David Hume, the famous empiricist author and philosopher. Desmond was not a passenger of Flight 815. He had been stranded on the island three years prior to the crash as the result of a shipwreck. Desmond eventually leaves the Island with the Oceanic 6 and is reunited with his love Penny Widmore. He is currently in hiding from her father, Charles Widmore. In keeping with the show's motif of naming important characters after important philosophers (e.g., John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mikhail Bakunin), Desmond David Hume is named after the famous Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, economist, and historian David Hume. Hume's philosophy partially states that moral responsibility requires determinism, and these elements play a large role in Desmond's life. David Hume also believed that humans could not persist through time. In the 4th season Desmond begins to exist in 1996 and 2004; correlating with David Hume's theory against personal identity. wikipedia
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