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Stories are account of real or imagined events. Haroun and the Sea of Stories contains many of them that do not clearly distinguish the line between reality and imagination. In fact these stories, true or untrue, show that imagination is necessary to work and feed the mind as well as to provide hope and courage for life's daily challenges. For imagination is a part of reality. Imagination is served by creative minds and can stir …

…one that requires the discipline to execute. When it is executed, it can even overcome the rational part of our being because it is stronger (Haroun's exercising of his imaginative powers at the dark ship destroys the control of P2C2E's over the moon's revolution). Thus, untrue stories, which are made up by our imagination, cannot be ignored nor set aside, but harnessed to enrich our lives here on good, solid and practical earth.