A German philosopher has killed God. Lyra's estranged from her daemon and in full-blown nihilist despair. The government's on a legibility kick. There's a new postmodern way to read the alethiometer.
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Anyone else reading The Secret Commonwealth? Pullman's been reading The Master and his Emissary (there's a quote from him on the front of my copy) and it's not subtle. Really enjoying it so far.
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I've been thinking about the alethiometer for a while now as a good symbol of something like the preformal - formal - postformal transition. But looks like Pullman's just straight out going there, I don't even have to make it up myself.
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pwoah... 784 pages?!
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Haha, I've been reading on kindle so I hadn't even noticed it was so long! It's not particularly fast moving either, everyone is just wandering around Oxford getting into various intrigues. But I've been enjoying the pace.
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I just finished the book and opened up Twitter to see if anyone would mention it and yours was the first tweet!!
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Would love to talk about it too!
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