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jollythunderstorms · 1 year

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So while I was watching episode 2 I noticed that, besides the book with the clue, there were other books in the shelf as seen here:

Being curious, I took a closer look to see if there was something significant on it (this was supposed to be the society's room after all)

(From L to R)

The first book is Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, a novel where a young woman is haunted by the memory of her husband's late first wife, to whom she's frequently negatively compared to, so it deals with themes of jealousy, escaping memory, the past, etc.

Second is Plutarch's Lives, a series of biographies of famous Roman and Greek men illustrating their common moral virtues/failings juxtapositioned with one another

Third is Essays and New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon, the former delves into a variety of different topics while the latter is depicts an utopian (*cough* happy *cough*) land in the mythical Bensalem

Fourth is the book clue itself, My Island Paradiso by a J. Haley which, unlike the others, doesn't seem to be an actual book! Google doesn't show anything when you search for it BUT the supposed author shares their name with Jay Haley, one of the founding figures of brief and family therapy and of the strategic model of psychotherapy

Next is Harvard Classics Vol. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, the three major English philosophers in Empiricism (of which Bacon is also considered the father of, mentioned above) which emphasizes all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the world aka "knowledge is based on experience"

Sixth is Lewis Cass by Andrew C. McLaughlin, an US biography on the aforementioned 18th century man who was a leading spokesman for "popular sovereignty" aka the belief that each citizen has sovereignty over themselves (tho mainly to determine if they get to keep slaves 'cause US)

Seventh is Kidnapped by R. L. Stevenson, an historical fiction novel based around the Appin murder so it centers heavily on the concept of justice

I can't for the life of me make out what the eight one is

And the last one is How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, which gives guidelines for critically reading books of any genre

#is the symbolism symbolizing or am i seeing things???#like 5 gives me ms perumal vibes and essays is very mr benedict #regardless it was fun researching this #there's def a theme tho #the mysterious benedict society #tmbslb

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