Here on June 7-11 —
June 7: Pullman's Holy Office
June 11: Dark Materials
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
The 7-11 Culture War
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Scholastic Observation . . .
In memory of the U.S. publisher of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ,*
who, The New York Times reports this evening, died Saturday (June 5, 2021) —
* Original British title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone .
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The Counter Offensive
On the above BBC One date — "Sun 15 Nov 2020" —
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Pullman’s Holy Office
Good question. From Philip Pullman's recent HBO version of
"His Dark Materials," The University of Oxford’s St. Peter’s College:
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Saturday, June 5, 2021
Times Square Logic
Dialogue from Season 1, Episode 8 of "His Dark Materials" —
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Asriel: And the serpent said, "You shall not surely die, for the Authority doth know that on that day that ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, your daemons shall assume their true form and ye shall be as…" Both: "… gods, knowing good and…" Lyra: "… evil." Asriel: "… Dust ." You see? They have been trying to convince us for centuries that we are born guilty. And that we have to spend a lifetime atoning for the crime of eating an apple. Is there any proof for this heinous stain, this shame, this guilt? No, not at all. We are to take it on faith, and on the word of the Authority. But Dust… Dust is an elementary particle that we can record, measure, study.
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"Times Square Logic" include two from April 7, 2015, the date of
Geoffrey Lewis's death.
Lewis played, notably, "Hard Case Williams" in Lust in the Dust (1984).
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