What is concretely known as an absolute truth is extremely sparse in this near three-hundred page novel.
All that said, The Arabian Nightmare is a particularly rare book in which immediately before reading I could have read multiple reviews or even detailed plot analysis and still not know what it was about. Almost always when I start a book I've no idea as to what made it originally catch my eye. Usually by the time I get around to reading something on my list I've completely forgotten what it is about and carry no expectation or preconceived ideas into reading the book. I read about books that sound interesting, put them on my TBR list and then proceed to forget about them often times until years later. I wish I could remember what originally brought this book to my attention. I dream I am awake and I am not and I dream of a temptress, a woman called Zuleyka, who seduces me from chastity, and when I awake from these dreams my face courses with blood.' "-166 I dream of leaving it or trying to, but I am impeded by two agents of Satan called the Father of Cats and Michael Vane. "Balian tried to see the friar's face properly before he spoke again but, having failed: 'I dream of entering a city that looks like Cairo, yet is utterly false.
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