What do you mean by burning it as an act of faith? For me, though, the idea was inspired by the book, it was more an act of practicality-he needed something that could burn?

What I really liked about that bit was after he’d burned the book and Granny was questioning him about how it must have been hard for him to burn all those words. I liked his calm reaction, did he say something like ‘the good ones don’t burn’? I seen this as both a time when Granny learns that there is more to Oats faith than just words and also the journey, where Oats systematically loses all the pyshical items that represent his faith- the book of words, the coller and hat, the holy Om Pendant. By losing these things he loses the easy focus of his believes (symbols are easier to believe it) it also freed him from the dogma that troubled him, now he was able to find out what he [b:206f8cca93]truly[/b:206f8cca93] believes. And it turns out that he does believe. But I think that only by losing his religion he confirmed his faith. I like that idea