NP (except for Pullman) Golden Compass

[Otto]

I'm in the middle of "The Amber Spyglass" now and I really like it.
Even Iceland Spar is mentioned (17th chapter)!

Great atheist stuff, opening quotes (for example) from the inevitable
Rilke (on Angels) and the always-binary John Ashbery ("The
Ecclesiast"):

Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living.
The night is cold and delicate and full of angels
Pounding down the living. The factories are all lit up,
The chime goes unheard.
We are together at last, though far apart.

	-- John Ashbery

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1425.html

The idea of the "daimon" is from W.B. Yeats ("A Vision", "Per Amica
Silentia Lunae"), or am I wrong?

http://www.yeatsvision.com/Daimon.html

Great way of getting kids into literature.

Otto


2007/12/9 Daniel Harper <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com>:
> I'm still working my way through the first book, and the thematic
> contractions are obvious even without having finished it, but the movie does
> work well on its own terms. Compared to "No Country for Old Men", sure, it
> lacks a certain depth, but when compared to other family films, even those
> with good provenance, it's really quite amazing. Blows that Harry Potter kid
> out of the water, anyway.
>
> On to finish the book now...
>
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2007 7:40 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Caught the much anticipated (at this address anyway) movie version of the
> excellent Phillip Pullman book today and report, with some regret, that it
> failed to measure up to the original in too many ways to overlook. In the
> effort to condense it to 114 minutes far too much was lost, and the
> narrative contraction voided almost all of the allegorical depth of the
> novel.
> >
> > Am now working through the third book in the trilogy with my 9 year old,
> and continue to marvel at Pullman's inventiveness.
> >
> >
> > love,
> > cfa
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> ...the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules are
> words...
> --Daniel Harper