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She gathered herself and went through her checklist, dealing one by one with the things that might make her conspicuous, so that once she was in control, she seemed only like the meekest, most passive, least determined bystander, no one worth taking an interest in. In
She might have regretted revealing where she came from, as it went against every principle she was trying to obey, but the sheer relief and pleasure of talking to someone sympathetic was too much to resist.
Facepalm
I know someone else who set out to go there, but I don’t know what happened to him.
only possible candidate was Marcel Delamare.
but there was nothing she could do to acquire a dæmon.
Not unless another one or similar enough spirit wanders by on its own
The fears Alison expressed about the new High Council were like her own, though Lyra hadn’t managed to think them through.
Lol did this lady show up just to think some thoughts for lyra
were they part of the Magisterium because of their beliefs, or something else altogether because of their activities?
She’d hugged to herself the phrase “the Republic of Heaven,” but never analyzed what it might mean. When she’d thought about it at all, she’d thought that rationality was the very foundation stone of the Republic of Heaven. That
That was the Lyra who had found the writing of Gottfried Brande so intoxicating, and that of Simon Talbot so disturbing.
Wait i though she liked both
A thought that followed naturally: Was that why Pan had left her?
Lol he literally said so
the time of her first estrangement from Pan.
Would have been nice to see this at the beginning of the book
A scoffing refusal to go to an exhibition of paintings on religious themes by the parent of a friend.
Her behavior—and now it all came back to her, bright with shame—her behavior towards Malcolm, when he’d been just Dr. Polstead.
Nah you get a pass on that lol
She had done wrong, and her wrongdoing was bound up, somehow, with a vision of the world from which the secret commonwealth was excluded.
Did the harpies belong to the secret commonwealth? Was the world of the dead, the world they dwelt in, part of that? Or had she imagined it, and was her imagination just a spindrift of falsity?
Lol well if anything that hapens in a previous book could be just lolz it was just a dream then whats the point of reading any of that
They were neither well- nor ill-disposed to human beings by nature, but sometimes their purposes intersected or coincided with human ones.
But we shouldn’t believe things because it makes us happy to, she thought. We should believe things because they’re true, and if that makes us unhappy, that’s very unfortunate, but it’s not the fault of reason.
Occam’s razor; things are more likely to be simple than complicated; if there is an explanation that leaves out things like imagination and emotion, then it’s more likely to be true than one that includes them.
Occams razor is onky for things you cant observe directly. A lot of true factual thongs are weird and complicated.
When I believed in the jacky lanterns, I saw more of them. Was that delusional? Was I making them up or seeing them?
Pan had left in order to look for a quality she didn’t have.
A quality she once had but lost. Theres a difference
the burning Dutchman! What would reason say about him? He couldn’t exist. He was a delusion. She had dreamed it all. It hadn’t happened—
That would explain… a lot. Especially how it reinacted book 1
Pan, you should be here. This dæmon needs you. You shouldn’t have left me.
love and bliss was still there, but shot through now with anxiety. She had to do something. She had to go somewhere. The cat was urging her to follow,
Perhaps it was the little dæmon himself who sensed a loneliness and desolation in Lyra, and came to give her comfort—not the other way round at all.
the kind of blow that would have ended a boxing match at once;
Bleurghhhhhhh
photograms of wrestlers and film stars.
Did motion pictures become a thing in the past ten years??? Lyra had never seen a movie theater before will's world
“He drowned.” “The fuck you know about it, if you were only ten years old.”
Lol i do like to see malcolm called on his shit
At first, it made me throw up and I saw nothing and felt nauseated. But I stuck to it. I tried again and again. I wasn’t going to let it beat me.
How on earth did he know it would work eventually
I found out one thing straightaway. It protects against the nausea in the new method.
“With the oil, they can see that. And lines of power.
Ok so its kinda like the stuff mary used to make her spyglass
Malcolm knew what the boy wanted then: the sexual admiration of an older man.
A reverse of what olivier found older dudes wanted
Lyra wondered what her dæmon had been, and whether it would be polite to ask.
:(
Nothing…Almost nothing has ever felt worse.
do her justice, she was remarkably pretty and graceful. I could feel her attractiveness myself, and my poor dæmon became besotted at once.”
Gayyyyyy
“The dancer? You went to live with her?” “It was reckless. I pretended to be in love with her, and she was happy enough with that.
"pretended"
But my dæmon wanted more, always more. He wanted to be hers and not mine.
Wow thats messed up
all three of us were sobbing with pain and terror; but I wouldn’t stop. I wrenched myself apart from him and left him there with her.
Huh so she survived tearing without dying or becoming a zombie
“When did you meet my father?” “It was a year before all that.” Lyra thought, But that can’t be true. He wouldn’t have been old enough.
Yeah hed only be like 45 now
Lyra’s mind was racing over deserts and mountains, to a ruined city stark and silent under moonlight.
Lol me too damn that woulod be interesting
There is a young man involved, I take it.” Lyra blinked. The princess must have meant Malcolm. Of course, he was young to her.
Ewwww
It was too full to satisfy any fire regulation that Malcolm was familiar with,
Lol why would regulations exist in lyras world
At first, the loudspeakers howled with feedback,
They have speakers now????
the armed police had quietly vanished.
Lol this gonna turn into a mass shooting why else would police nope out
three men appeared on the platform behind him, carrying guns: two had rifles, one had a pistol.
Somehow less intimidating in a world without automatics
My companions in the brotherhood of this holy purpose are numbered in the thousands of thousands.
Either hes lying or thats a heck of a large army to keep secret up to now. They must have relatives who wonder what the heck theyre doing and cooks are tailors and doctprs
I will never deny the truth of my senses!
a whole audience imprisoned, but now with no one to hold them at gunpoint, all the intruders being on the stage, guarding their hostages.
Lol thats why you need guns with a lot more rounds in em
an anbaric fire alarm
Bs
There didn’t seem to be much for him to do.
Lol what am i reading
“Improbable,” said Malcolm blandly.
Lol he is james bond
