His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

A witty acquaintance thought it amusing to scrawl an S over the V,

Johnny Depp vandalized Sauvage bus sop ad.

Alice,

espaliers

oxalic

smokeleaf

anbaric

he and Asta were one being, so the intuitions were his anyway, as much as his feelings were hers.

did you ever know them look after an infant?’

Lyra?

“No. I’ll do it myself. Thank you, Thorold. Have they finished dinner yet, Wren?”

naphtha

‘Well, that’s the right answer.

‘She was startled when you asked that.

“You’re not taking this seriously,” whispered her dæmon. “Behave yourself.”

Dæmons have double quotation marks?

Retiring Room at the other end of the dais.

chafing-dish

Asriel

Aërodock,

Tokay

The Master had been a powerful man,

Lord Asriel, was her uncle,

unfolded the paper, and poured a thin stream of white powder into the decanter

Lyra was afraid of the Steward, who had twice beaten her.

anbaric

naphtha

Wren,”

Lord Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.

it was clear where the power lay.

they were all she had for a family.

They might even have felt like a family if she knew what a family was, though if she did, she’d have been more likely to feel that about the College servants.

Poppy was always served after a Feast: it clarified the mind and stimulated the tongue, and made for rich conversation.

Yarnton:

It’s composed of storms of charged particles and solar rays of intense and extraordinary strength – invisible in themselves, but causing this luminous radiation when they interact with the atmosphere.

“Trepanning?”

panserbjørne

Lyra was following this with puzzlement: what the Palmerian Professor said made no sense at all. Besides, she was impatient to hear more about scalping and the Northern Lights and that mysterious Dust. But she was disappointed, for Lord Asriel had finished showing his relics and pictures, and the talk soon turned into a college wrangle about whether or not they should give him some

scotched

brantwijn

alethiometer

the Holy Church teaches that there are two worlds: the world of everything we can see and hear and touch, and another world, the spiritual world of heaven and hell.

the child is growing.

Lyra has a part to play in all this, and a major one. The irony is that she must do it all without realizing what she’s doing.

“Why should a distant theological riddle interest a healthy thoughtless child?”

Part of that includes a great betrayal

she will be the betrayer,

“That’s the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, “to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.”

Brytain.

Concilium,

anbarographs

New France,

experimental theology.