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…For those of you who have not yet realised, the preceding monographs have followed,

relatively closely, the lines laid out by the Danish Philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard,

in his master-work, ‘Fear and Trembling’.

Quite apart from his unquestionble literary genius and an eternally playful spirit,

Kierkegaard is interesting for a number of reasons.

His name, for one, which means ‘church-yard’, compare, scottish ‘kirk’ for ‘church’,

and the fact that all his published written works were placed in the public domain

under a series of aliases which comprised a different nom de plume, or pen-name, for each work.

We shall return to literary masks in due course…

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