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Written 3rd February

The books were kind of lame but if anyone cares:
We see Desmond reading this book;
Haroun and the Sea of Stories,
which is a 1990 children’s book by Salman Rushdie. It is a phantasmagorical story set in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is an allegory for several problems existing in society today, especially in India and the Indian subcontinent. It looks at these problems from the viewpoint of the young protagonist Haroun. It is also interesting to note that Rushdie dedicated this book to his son, Zafar Rushdie, from whom he was separated for some time. (I think they chose this because the island was underwater).

Found in a backpack in the cave outside the Temple.

Fear and Trembling, is an influential philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (John the Silent). The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, “…continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”

Fear and Trembling presents a highly original and provocative interpretation of the Binding of Isaac story as told in Genesis Chapter 22, and uses the story as an occasion to discuss fundamental issues in moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion, such as the nature of God and faith, faith’s relationship with ethics and morality, and the difficulty of being authentically religious (I love that this was found in the temple).

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