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Saturday, March 9, 2024

Annals of Deceptive Fiction —
Dark Materials: Milton, Eliot, Pullman

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:45 pm

For Pullman, see previous instances of "wilde abyss" in this journal.

For a less fictional approach to the abyss, see the following.

From T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination
by Sarah Kennedy,
Cambridge University Press, 2018 —

Chapter 7
His Dark Materials

Would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say, I play
The Man I am.

– Shakespeare, Coriolanus, III.ii. [Link added.]

. . . .

Eliot describes the creative germ as the
‘unknown, dark psychic material . . .
with which the poet struggles’.

The phrase echoes Milton’s Paradise Lost :

Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in their pregnant causes mixt
Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th’ Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds . . .

Eliot’s creative logic retains an aspect of the divine
poet-as-maker, but the effect is not hubristic.
Where Milton’s Almighty may ordain, Eliot’s poet
can only struggle against something unknown.
Yet even in the image of struggle, reminiscent of
Jacob’s struggle with the obscured figure who
appears in the darkness and departs at dawn,
there is a sense of the poet as more than human,
both blessed and maimed by the confrontation.
Like Milton, Eliot locates the struggle in a ‘wilde abyss’:
he once described human consciousness
(following The Tempest ) as extending into a
‘dark . . . backward and abysm of time’. Importantly,
this space is not an aspect of the world as constructed
by a presiding intention (as in Paradise Lost ), but exists
within the poet.
. . . .

"The phrase echoes Milton's Paradise Lost" —

In describing his  abyss, Milton invokes not "psychic material" but
rather the classical view of Nature as composed of the four elements
Water, Earth, Air and Fire.

Note that one source* of the "psychic material" phrase in Eliot's work
gives a rather different picture . . .

"And now I should like to return for a moment to Gottfried Benn
and his unknown, dark psychic material —
we might say, the octopus or angel with which the poet struggles."

* "The Three Voices of Poetry," by T. S. Eliot, The Atlantic, April 1954.

Related entertainment . . .

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

A Subtle Knife for Pullman

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:09 pm

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

For the Dark Matter Holy Office  of Philip Pullman —

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:37 pm
 

The Big White Hashtag:

 

 

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Perspective for Pullman*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:05 pm

* I.e., for Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials .
  Those who prefer fiction to reality may consult
  a Baja-related search in this  journal for "Sea of Cortez."
  That search in turn suggests a Fandom webpage related
  to yesterday's post "Perspective" —  
  https://davidmitchell.fandom.com/wiki/Luisa_Rey.
  "Luisa Rey is played by Halle Berry in the Wachowski siblings'
  2012 adaptation of Cloud Atlas . . . . Her name is based on 
  The Bridge of San Luis Rey . . . ." 

Monday, June 7, 2021

Pullman’s Holy Office

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:23 pm

Good question.  From Philip Pullman's recent HBO version of
"His Dark Materials," The University of Oxford’s St. Peter’s College:

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Dies Natalis

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:18 am

The New York Times  reports the death yesterday, January 30, 2024,
of the wife of Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson.

According to the Catholic Church, therefore, yesterday was her
dies natalis — day of birth into heaven.

According to the Times, her secular  dies natalis  was Oct. 3 (10/03) —

"Melinda Kae Ledbetter was born on Oct. 3, 1946, in Pueblo, Colo."

According to this  journal, yesterday's significant "10 03" was a time —

Fans of hallucinatory fiction might recall a saying of Philip Pullman:

"The meaning of a story emerges in the meeting
between the words on the page
and the thoughts in the reader's mind.
So when people ask me what I meant by this story,
or what was the message I was trying to convey in that one,
I have to explain that I'm not going to explain.

Anyway, I'm not in the message business;
I'm in the 'Once upon a time' business."

Words that are somewhat less hallucinatory —

Sunday, November 12, 2023

“Si le grain ne meurt”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:37 pm

Leonard F. Wheat, Harvard Ph.D. 1958,
is said to have died at 82 on May 12, 2014.

Look upon his works, ye Mighty, and despair.

Also on Wheat's date of death —

Friday, October 20, 2023

Scattering Ashes, Gathering Dust

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:20 am

Related art —

From Savage Logic—

Sunday, March 15, 2009  5:24 PM

The Origin of Change

A note on the figure
from this morning's sermon:

Diamond Theory version of 'The Square Inch Space' with yin-yang symbol for comparison

"Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends 
On a woman, day on night, the imagined 
On the real. This is the origin of change. 
Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace 
And forth the particulars of rapture come."

— Wallace Stevens,   
"Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,"
Canto IV of "It Must Change"

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Marcela with Red Riding Hood

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:23 pm

If she said "Eat my dust!" I would be tempted.
 

And then there is Pullman . . .

Saturday, April 22, 2023

High Hopes

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:11 am

"In the digital cafeteria where AI chatbots mingle,
Perplexity AI is the scrawny new kid ready to
stand up to ChatGPT, which has so far run roughshod
over the AI landscape. With impressive lineage, a wide
array of features, and a dedicated mobile app, this
newcomer hopes to make the competition eat its dust."

— Jason Nelson at decrypt.co, April 12, 2023

Not unlike, in the literary cafeteria, Pullman vs. Tolkien?
ChatGPT seems to have the advantage for lovers of
fiction and fantasy, Perplexity AI for lovers of truth.

Sunday, January 1, 2023

The Missing Links

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:20 am

Pullman links in this journal —

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=wsu.edu .

Specifically . . .

<a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Edee/GLOSSARY/SHUCHUNG.HTM"
target="_new" rel="noopener noreferrer">
<strong><em>Shu</em>: Reciprocity</strong></a>

and 

<a href="http://www.wsu.edu/%7Edee/GREECE/HERAC.HTM"
target="_new"><font size="6"><b>Logos</b></font></a>

Those links no longer work.  See instead . . .

https://web.archive.org/web/20011224032243/
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/SHUCHUNG.HTM

and

https://web.archive.org/web/20011129072406/
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/HERAC.HTM .

Logo from these  links:

Friday, December 23, 2022

Scope and Depth

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:28 pm

"The book I came back to
George Eliot’s Middlemarch. I couldn’t cope with it
as a student; it wasn’t until I was grown up, and married,
and a parent, and trying to teach it myself, that I realised
its majestic scope and depth." — Philip Pullman in
The Guardian, Fri 23 Dec 2022 05.00 EST

Another instance of scope  and depth  — 
"The Amber Spyglass" Log24 post of Wednesday.

See also other references here  to Middlemarch.

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

For Fans of “The Story Theory of Truth” . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:28 am

(See earlier posts referring to that theory.)

Catching up to Pullman's Oct. 3 remark . . .

See Log24 posts now tagged October 1-2-3.

Monday, December 19, 2022

Mathematics and Narrative, Continued . . .
“Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln . . .”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 3:50 am

   Midrash from Philip Pullman . . .

"The 1929 Einstein-Carmichael Expedition"

    I prefer the 1929 Emch-Carmichael expedition —

This is from . . .

“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”

— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
(Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics,
Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham,
Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Together Again… At Twilight Time

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:58 am

In memory of Ed Wood:

"Such a brilliant director, a fucking powerhouse…."
— Recent Instagram comment

"Twilight  was theatrically released on November 21, 2008;
it grossed over US$393 million worldwide. It was released
on DVD March 21, 2009 and became the most purchased
DVD of the year." — Wikipedia

See also November 21, 2008, in posts tagged Olaf Gate.

Related material —

As inquisitions go, I prefer the Holy Office of Philip Pullman. 

Before thir eyes in sudden view appear
The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark
Illimitable Ocean without bound,
Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth,
And time and place are lost; where eldest Night
And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold
Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise
Of endless warrs and by confusion stand.
For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce
Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring amidst the noise
Thir embryon Atoms....
                                ... Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage....

-- John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book II

Friday, June 25, 2021

Queens Gambit

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:07 am

Note of 10:44 AM ET, Friday, June 25, 2021 —

"Stephen Elliot Dunn was born on June 24,
1939, in Forest Hills, Queens . . . ."

— https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/
books/stephen-dunn-poet-dead.html

Update of 11:07 AM ET the same day —

From Dunn's obituary —

Whether writing about matters small or large,
Mr. Dunn said in a 2010 episode of
The Cortland Review ’s video series “Poets in Person,” 
the key was to find the meaning beneath the experience.

“Even your most serious problem,” he said,
“very few people are going to be interested in
unless you yourself, in the act of writing the poem,
make some discoveries about it.”

—  By Neil Genzlinger, New York Times ,
     June 25, 2021, 10:23 a.m. ET

"We have much to discover." — Saying attributed to 
Christopher Marlowe in a TV series.  See posts now tagged 4X.

Midrash for Doctorow —

Scholium for Pullman —

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

The 7-11 Culture War

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:44 pm

Here  on June 7-11 —

June 7: Pullman's Holy Office

June 11: Dark Materials

Monday, September 30, 2019

Multiplicity on Michaelmas

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:54 am

"We need a multiplicity of viewpoints."

— Philip Pullman in a New Yorker  interview
     published yesterday 

See as well Pullman's "Golden Compass"
in posts tagged

Nothing New.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Phase Space

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 3:33 am

"Open the pod bay doors, Bernard."

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Ojos

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:11 pm

From the Hulu series 'The Path,' the Eye logo

A better term than "phase space" might be "story space."

Monday, October 22, 2018

Story Space

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:48 pm

A better term than "phase space" might be "story space."

See as well Expanding the Spielraum.

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Hume, Parfit. Parfit, Hume.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:11 pm

 "And were all my perceptions removed by death,
and could I neither think, nor feel, nor see, nor love,
nor hate, after the dissolution of my body, I should
be entirely annihilated, nor do I conceive what is
further requisite to make me a perfect nonentity."

— Book I, Part IV, Section vi  of  
    A Treatise of Human Nature

— Detail from the ending of Philip Pullman's
     graphic novel "Mystery of the Ghost Ship"

Monday, June 19, 2017

Singularity

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Log24 ten years ago today —

"Here, in a strategy of simple erasure,
 the Subject masks his singularity . . . ."

— Jacques Derrida

See also the previous post and . . .

— Detail from the ending of Philip Pullman's new
     graphic novel "Mystery of the Ghost Ship"

Friday, August 12, 2016

Dustbucket Physics

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 3:00 pm

Peter Galison, a Harvard professor, is a defender of
the Vienna Circle and the religion of Scientism.

From Galison's “Structure of Crystal, Bucket of Dust,” in
Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative ,
edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur, pp. 52-78 
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2012) …

Galison's final paragraph —

"Perhaps, then, it should not surprise us too much if,
as Wheeler approaches the beginning-end of all things,
there is a bucket of Borelian dust. Out of this filth,
through the proposition machine of quantum mechanics
comes pregeometry; pregeometry makes geometry;
geometry gives rise to matter and the physical laws
and constants of the universe. At once close to and far
from the crystalline story that Bourbaki invoked,
Wheeler’s genesis puts one in mind of Genesis 3:19:
'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.' "

For fans of Scientism who prefer more colorful narratives —

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Logic of the Dust

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

"Dust is a fictional elementary particle that is of
fundamental importance within the story." 

— Wikipedia on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials  trilogy

A review of posts tagged Kabbalah yields —

  "If all that 'matters' are fundamentally mathematical relationships, then there ceases to be any important difference between the actual and the possible. (Even if you aren't a mathematical Platonist, you can always find some collection of particles of dust to fit any required pattern. In Permutation City  this is called the 'logic of the dust' theory.)….
    … Paul Durham is convinced by the 'logic of the dust' theory mentioned above, and plans to run, just for a few minutes, a complex cellular automaton (Permutation City) started in a 'Garden of Eden' configuration — one which isn't reachable from any other, and which therefore must have been the starting point of a simulation….  I didn't understand the need for this elaborate set-up, but I guess it makes for a better story than 'well, all possible worlds exist, and I'm going to tell you about one of them.' "

— Danny Yee, review of Permutation City , 
     a novel by Greg Egan

See also in this journal a search for Dark Matter.

Monday, October 20, 2014

The Writing Desk

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

Why is  a raven like a writing desk?

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Volar

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:00 am

Ay que bonito es volar…

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110414-PullmanScience.jpg

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Sunday August 16, 2009

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm
Return to Paradise

(Title of a New Yorker
essay dated June 2, 2008)

Kenneth Bacon, an advocate for refugees, died yesterday at 64 on the Feast of the Assumption.

In his honor, we may perhaps be justified in temporarily ignoring the wise saying "never assume."

From a defense of the dogma of the Assumption:

"On another level, the Assumption epitomizes the reconciliation of the material and spiritual world, as the human Mary enters 'body and soul to heavenly glory.' Carl Jung, the transpersonal psychologist, concluded that the doctrine of the Assumption reflected an acceptance of the physical world."

For other such reconciliations, see

  • The New Yorker on Milton meeting Galileo: "Though Milton was the much younger man, in some ways his world system seems curiously older than the astronomer’s empirical universe."
  • This journal on Milton's world system: the four qualities "hot, cold, moist, and dry" and the four elements "Sea, Shore, Air, and Fire."

    But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
    Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
    Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
    His dark materials to create more Worlds….

  • This journal's "For Galois on Bastille Day" reconciles, if only in a literary way, physical and non-physical worlds. The work of Evariste Galois allows us to depict an analogue of Milton's (and Philip Pullman's) physical world of dark materials within the purely mathematical world of finite groups. (For a less literary connection between physical and mathematical worlds, see this journal on Bastille Eve.)

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Sunday June 28, 2009

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:00 am

Raven Steals the Light

Raven from the home page of 'Dark Materials' author Philip Pullman

Home page of 'Dark Materials' author Philip Pullman

Thanks for a reference
to this story go to
Robert Bringhurst,
in his own way a
Cleric of the Grammaton.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Friday June 26, 2009

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:48 pm

Apocatastasis Now

I give you the end of a golden string,
Only wind it into a ball:
It will lead you in at Heavens gate,
Built in Jerusalems wall.
— WILLIAM BLAKE

"In 'Apocatastasis Now: A Very Condensed Reading of William Blake's Jerusalem' (JBSSJ [Journal of the Blake Society at St James's] 6 [2001] 18–25), Susanne Sklar argues that Blake is not apocalyptic but apocatastatic, that is (following a doctrine of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa) he believes that all free creatures will be redeemed by God's universal love."

— The Year's Work in English Studies, 2003: Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 493-547

Related material:

 

Thriller

 

From the website of Philip Pullman,
president of The Blake Society:

 

"I must create a System…"

The Blake Society, 25 October 2005: St James’s Church, Piccadilly

I see that the title of this lecture is given as BLAKE'S DARK MATERIALS. Now in the lecturer's handbook, the second rule says "You need take no obsessive notice of the title that has been announced in advance." Whether Blake's materials are dark or not I couldn't really say, but I am going to talk about Blake, partly, and partly about religion. Appropriate, perhaps, in a place like this, but you might think not appropriate from someone whose reputation is that of a scoffer or mocker or critic of religion; but I haven't come here to scoff or mock. Nor have I come here to recant, as a matter of fact. I'm profoundly interested in religion, and I think it's extremely important to understand it. I've been trying to understand it all my life, and every so often it's useful to put one's thoughts in order; but I shall never like God.

Download the full lecture
(pdf format, 155.62 KB)

 

For more dark materials
from the Halloween season
of 2005 — in fact, from the
  very date of Pullman's lecture–
see Darkness Doubled.

Friday, December 21, 2007

Friday December 21, 2007

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm
My books are about
Killing God
 
— Philip Pullman  

God was apparently not
available this week;
record producer Joel Dorn,
who died on Monday,
will have to do.

http://www.log24.com/log/pix07A/071221-Dorn.jpg

"… when you get the feel of it, and the record actually transports you back to that time, then it's a real explanation of what's going on… of what went on. And here I think you can– it's one thing to get the music, it's another thing to get the place and the people and the interaction. When it's really right, the audience is the fifth member of a quartet." —Joel Dorn

In the garden of Adding,
Live Even and Odd….
—The Midrash Jazz Quartet

"Philosophers ponder the idea
of identity: what it is to
give something a name
on Monday and have it
respond to that name
on Friday."
—Bernard Holland in
The New York Times,
Monday, May 20, 1996

"Daddy's like
an old knight."

–Allison in "Meet Joe Black"

For Joe Black himself,
see the previous entry.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Friday August 10, 2007

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:31 am

The Ring of Gyges

10:31:32 AM ET

Commentary by Richard Wilhelm
on I Ching Hexagram 32:

“Duration is… not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression.
Duration is rather the self-contained and therefore self-renewing
movement of an organized, firmly integrated whole, taking place in
accordance with immutable laws and beginning anew at every ending.”

Related material

The Ring of the Diamond Theorem

Jung and the Imago Dei

Log24 on June 10, 2007: 

WHAT MAKES IAGO EVIL? some people ask. I never ask. —Joan Didion

Iago states that he is not who he is. —Mark F. Frisch

“Not Being There,”
by Christopher Caldwell,
from next Sunday’s
New York Times Magazine:

“The chance to try on fresh identities was the great boon that life online was supposed to afford us. Multiuser role-playing games and discussion groups would be venues for living out fantasies. Shielded by anonymity, everyone could now pass a ‘second life’ online as Thor the Motorcycle Sex God or the Sage of Wherever. Some warned, though, that there were other possibilities. The Stanford Internet expert Lawrence Lessig likened online anonymity to the ring of invisibility that surrounds the shepherd Gyges in one of Plato’s dialogues. Under such circumstances, Plato feared, no one is ‘of such an iron nature that he would stand fast in justice.’Time, along with a string of sock-puppet scandals, has proved Lessig and Plato right.”

“The Boy Who Lived,”
by Christopher Hitchens,
from next Sunday’s
New York Times Book Review:

On the conclusion of the Harry Potter series:”The toys have been put firmly back in the box, the wand has been folded up, and the conjuror is discreetly accepting payment while the children clamor for fresh entertainments. (I recommend that they graduate to Philip Pullman, whose daemon scheme is finer than any patronus.)”

I, on the other hand,
recommend Tolkien…
or, for those who are
already familiar with
Tolkien, Plato– to whom
“The Ring of Gyges” may
serve as an introduction.

“It’s all in Plato, all in Plato:
bless me, what do they
teach them at these schools!”
— C. S. Lewis

Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Wednesday January 15, 2003

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:55 pm

Conversations in Hell

Part I: Locating Hell

"Noi siam venuti al loco ov' i' t'ho detto
           che tu vedrai le genti dolorose
        c'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto."

— Dante, Inferno, Canto 3, 16-18

"We have come to where I warned you
       we would find
Those wretched souls who no longer have 
The intellectual benefits of the mind."

— Dante, Hell, Canto 3, 16-18

From a Harvard student's weblog:

Heard in Mather  I hope you get gingivitis You want me to get oral cancer?! Goodnight fartface Turd. Turd. Turd. Turd. Turd. Make your own waffles!! Blah blah blah starcraft blah blah starcraft blah starcraft. It's da email da email. And some blue hair! Oohoohoo Izod! 10 gigs! Yeah it smells really bad. Only in the stairs though. Starcraft blah blah Starcraft fartface. Yeah it's hard. You have to get a bunch of battle cruisers. 40 kills! So good! Oh ho ho grunt grunt squeal.  I'm getting sick again. You have a final tomorrow? In What?! Um I don't even know. Next year we're draggin him there and sticking the needle in ourselves. 

" … one more line / unravelling from the dark design / spun by God and Cotton Mather"

— Robert Lowell

Part II: The Call of Stories

From a website on college fund-raising: 

• “The people who come to us bring their stories. They hope they tell them well enough so that we understand the truth of their lives.”—Robert Coles, Harvard professor, The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination

• “If there’s anything worth calling theology, it is listening to people’s stories, listening to them and cherishing them.”—Mary Pellauer, quoted in Kathleen Norris’ Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

From a website on "The West Wing":

THE LONG GOODBYE   
9pm 2003-01-15    

"ALL NEW!

In a special episode guest written by playwright Jon Robin Baitz, C.J. (Allison Janney) reluctantly returns to Dayton, Ohio, to speak at her 20th high school class reunion…"

From a website illustrating language in Catholic religious stories:

"Headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, the Sisters of the Precious Blood is a Catholic religious congregation…"

From a Catholic religious story by J. R. R. Tolkien:

"It shone now as if verily it was
 wrought of living fire.
'Precious, precious, precious!' Gollum cried.
'My Precious! O my Precious!'"

From a website on Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials: 

"'Stories are the most important thing in the world.  Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all."

From the same website, a short story:

"Philip Pullman was born in Norwich on

19th October 1946."

Part III: My Story

For a different story, see my weblog of

19th October 2002:


Saturday, October 19, 2002

 

What is Truth?

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