![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, seeing as our world is rife with pirs, palmists, tarot and parrot card readers, psychics, voodoo medicine men, faith healers and hakeems, this book comes as a walking stick simply because as a global society we have become too crippled to fend for ourselves. Perhaps, had I not been in Pakistan, my urge to make this book known would not be so prevalent. You can read it in a linear fashion, ‘episode by episode’ if you will, or you can jump around sporadically if you, like the rest of the multiple-tab generation, suffer from some mild forms of Attention Deficit Disorder. The Demon-Haunted World is a collection of essays by Carl Sagan. You know when something is so good it starts to burst out of your skin? You just want everyone around you to be a part of it in some compassionately fascistic manner? ‘Read it read it read it read it read it read it’ just starts to churn in your head over and over again and only society with its tight social norms stops you from physically slamming the book into your colleagues face? No? Well, maybe you should read this book and then you may be able to empathise. ![]()
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