The end of Sophie's World

I did finish Sophie’s World just before the weekend. To save a regurgitation of old material, and doubling of effort, if anyone is interested in a critique of the book I also went on to read Phillip Jensen’s essay “Whose history of philosophy?” (from Kategoria and also contained in the book Prodigal World: How we abandoned God and suffered the consequences, both of which are available from Matthias Media), which summed it up very nicely, in particular mentioning the problems that a “history” will always be a biased collection and the dangers of a seeming objectivity which yet compels readers to one conclusion.

I did find the ending of this book rather curious in that there was a suggestion of a communication between "worlds", which doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the actual context of the plot, or in the context of where the philosophical history has left us (which doesn't align so well with the parallel plot of the story in places), but is there as a hint regardless (there's something in the fog ...). Humanity can never, it seems, completely escape the possibility of something beyond influencing the events of our lives.