- Hannah
- Sadie
- Jesse
- Jill
- Ronnie
- John
- Taylor
- Ben
- Kathleen
- Emily
- Racquel
- Cheryl
- Sutter (rescheduled)
- Brandon (rescheduled)
- Kayla
- Kyle
- Brett
- Lisa
- Kalli
- Danielle
- Aaron
- Stephanie
- Julie
- Jessi
- etc. ...
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Trilogy -- why all 3?
the rarity of the length <--> the impact cf. Quixote (~900 pages)
the metaphor of starting afresh
the pain of endings, passing from innocence to experience
Roger Sales' "Fairy Tales and After" : Milne's "House at Pooh Corner"
“leaving childhood behind” “my tears are for the lost boy I am” "wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on top of the Forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing."
knighthood
cf. the ending of Cervantes' Quixote
Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren in Man of La Mancha 1972
Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II
“...Into this wild Abyss the warie fiendintertextuality : in conversation w/ Blake, Dante, Milton
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage…”
pro-temptation | pro-curiousity (Alice)
the story is born from doing what you’re told not to do
Milton and the temptation in the garden, “their eyes opened”
original sin <--> knowledge
The Fall as necessary
Blake: “The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.” Marriage of Heaven & Hell
Blake Archive: Milton a Poem
Salman Rushdie
“the devil gets all the good tunes”
William Blake "A Little Girl Lost" Songs of Innocence and Experience
Children of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
In the age of gold,
Free from winter's cold,
Youth and maiden bright,
To the holy light,
Naked in the sunny beams delight.
Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired wanderers weep.
To her father white
Came the maiden bright;
But his loving look,
Like the holy book
All her tender limbs with terror shook.
'Ona, pale and weak,
To thy father speak!
Oh the trembling fear!
Oh the dismal care
That shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair!'
Heinrich von Kleist -- the Puppet Theatre -- a fighting bear
Pullman as a gnostic chooses wisdom not ignorance (historically, Gnosticism lost out)
Pullman thinks his own daemon a bower bird
(a female satin bowerbird !)
(a female satin bowerbird !)
(Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia !)
sources:
folk and fairy tale
myth
Bildungsroman
science fiction
and
the Helsinki phonebook -- Serafina
opens in sleep …
“some themes too large for adult fiction, therefore go to children literature to find them”
“stories are VITAL”
TRUE stories or true STORIES
p. 273 parents
cut away from daemon = extinction?
Lyra | Trinity | Eve Matrix
father needs child to sacrifice
rash promises
father reads King James chapter 3 Genesis with a twist
an alternate phrase in an alternate universe
ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Genesis 3:19 (KJV): "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
from the current Anglican Burial Service: " 'You are dust, and to dust you shall return.' All of us go down to the dust; yet even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia."
sin and shame and death -- fixed daemons --
square root of one
unto dust????
from original sin to necessary rebellion
Sutter on daemons and "Philip Pullman had said of the Chronicles of Narnia that, if it is supposed to be a religious book, it is void of the single most important Christian value: love.”
Lord Asriel's daemon is a snow leopard !!!!!!!!!!
materialism matters
p.s. my shipment of the Pullman books was on my doorstep when i got home ...
my heroes? Betterworld.com the "online bookstore with a soul" and Biblio.com
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