he pursues the vanished head librarian and the mysterious book and its spiritual meaning.
Clearly, this is a sudden and precipitous change in this man's life. What accounts for such a drastic change in this man from a rational, technology-obsessed conformist to an individual throwing his arid life away for a mysterious spiritual pursuit? He must be seem as an unusual man to begin with, for most people in such a controlled society would not seriously consider such a radical and sudden change.
In other words, the desire for spiritual enlightenment had to have been in him before he was drawn to the picture, its inscription, and the previous librarian's journal.
On the other hand, we can be forgiven for thinking that there was something about the nature of the society in which he lives which made h
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