19 November 2008 Class Notes

• 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?