- Pullman --> Stark realist?
- Things in His Dark Materials being real?
- pg 281, end of golden compass, idea of "the north"
- daemons, didacticism, dust, storytelling, alethiometer
- reality-> what is the north, where (geographically) or what does it suggest?
- idea of north has to deal with imagining the north, the frontier, something old becoming something new...
- where do you go when you reach the north?
- Poems -- Snowman, The Ode & the Grecian Urn
- Music of the spheres, caused by the movement of planets & celestial bodies..."it can be heard but not by your ear, unless you trained to hear..."
- pg 364, talking about dust knowing
- animals -> interchanging, inseperable, seperating yourself form your anima=soul
- Notion of the daemon- child daemons change, adult daemons don't
- What is it that cause the daemon to change/not change anymore?
- Sacrifice, selfless sacrifice
- Is he a realist because he doesn't give a happy ending?
- Go look at Ryan's blog
- My Dinner With Andre, the idealist and the realist
- Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass --> metaphors
- Why go to literature for realism? The imagination wants you to see symbols/symbolic
- Ability to deal with the hypothetical
- What differentiates us from the animals?
- Friday...what is your daemon?
Wicca
16 years ago
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