
Guarding Against the Snare of Sloth
Hamza Yusuf
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The Raj Khatat by Paul Scott
The Raj Khatat by Paul Scott is the great novel of the last century. In it there is a police inspector called Merrick and he's clearly intended to be a kind of perversion of the word merit. The whole book is written with this very close attention to names and two settings. He has that complexity which makes him capable of great deeds of generosity But he has exactly this Exhutation of evil. Yeah, I've never met anyone like that And so I asked myself whether they exist. So I have to believe they exist but Well, I think you've read enough literature to know that great literature is never melodramatic.
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