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all was well and that the world was her true home, as if there were great secret powers that would see her safe.
Well, he could look after her, and pretend to be her dæmon, and guard her from suspicion at least.
Ive just realized that if you and ypur daemon can separate you can fake your own death. I hope that happens cuz that woukod be a trip
or Aisha,
this is her sister
has ordered your arrest. Did you know about that?” She felt dizzy. “No,” she said. “First I’ve heard.”
Its not a surprise when the old magesterium was huntijng her down in the fens
Why did she trust this Bud Schlesinger?
Oh hai editors note
i mean lots of dudesz have shown up to help her so far
It was the sort of conversation she hadn’t had for a long time, and she had no idea how much she’d missed that sort of easy, friendly chatter.
We dont get to hear
her dæmon was a cat, as you probably remember if you saw her onstage.
Lol imagine the weirdness around actors needing a certain daemon for a role
as soon as Olivier Bonneville finds me again with the alethiometer, he’ll know I look like this, and then so will the Magisterium.
True. He'll Have to use the old method tho
How absurd to find her hands shaking as she tore it open!
Ditto
And yet he was right.
Well duh he's a gary stu
What was my witch-name? Tatiana…And a patronymic—Tatiana Asrielovna.
Girl you used ypur witch name like once
And get together with Malcolm. Yes!
Omg wtf
Why do dæmons go there?
Maybe sick of being sidekicks
Did someone kidnap you? Is it a kind of prison camp? Will I have to rescue you?
Book 1
Children were running about on the stony ground, fathers stood in groups talking or sat smoking in the dust, mothers washed clothes in galvanized buckets or cooked over open fires,
Lolz women be working
they were like people without dæmons, people missing something essential.
the bottle of carbonated orange drink
The have fanta????? I guess cola has been around since the 1800s so i wont get testy about carbonation
I am traveling like this, across the earth, slowly.”
This is an obvious lie. Shes wating time with no cloud pine
the whole pack must be like that, and it must be possible to put them together in an uncountable number of ways.
MYRIORAMA.
Make them camels instead of horses, sweep away the trees and replace them with a sandy desert, and they could
Lol so make a totally different picture
could choose to believe in the secret commonwealth. I don’t have to be skeptical about it. If free will exists, and I have it, I can choose that.
Can you choose your beiefs?
home pruning the roses
There is a king who claims to rule there, but he’s really a vassal of the empire of Cathay,
“Well, Polstead will know what to do,” said Godwin,
Blechhhhhhh
“Up-to-date machine guns,
Ok those exist here too
“Oh, here, put this on. It’ll hide the blood.”
Pressure. You need to apply presure.
“Don’t try and tell us that’s all it is,” said Anita. “You’re in love with her.”
Ew
“The name of every product they make contains the letters T and P.
That sounds inconvenient
and TP lol
It was highly episodic; the story had many turns and byways, and brought in every kind of fabulous creature and outlandish situation.
Stop reviewing the book im reading
wait they are trying to thwart lyras uncle and find roses holy fuck
In Malcolm’s view the story was almost insufferable,
Lol
he’d had to go to the very edge of his strength to save Alice from Gerard Bonneville….Alice would know what to do now.
Non sequitor. She needed to be saved
Alice could project a beam (that was how she thought of it) of intense coldness when she wanted to,
but she could embody an intense sexuality. Malcolm knew that.
Wut y malcolm
Brenda Polstead
Lol sounds so modern
Janet saw Malcolm very clearly in his mother at that moment, and she had admired him greatly (and silently) for a long time.
God does every woman slaver over malcolm
He was pretending he couldn’t hear her. His face was turned down; he sat perfectly still; he was pretending she wasn’t there, and that no one was asking him questions, and he seemed to think that if he sat still and didn’t look at her, what he pretended would come true.
Parallel to Gottfried
She stood up a third time, her right hand grasping the handle of her stick Pequeno, and when the soldier’s hand came forward, she whipped the stick out of the rucksack and smashed it down so hard that she heard the crack of bone a moment before he yelled in pain.
Yeahhhhh i doubt this will end well. Fighting back just loses her the white girl privilege
“Give it to me,” she said. “Give it back to me.”
Whoops not in French
“Am I supposed to let myself be raped? I’d kill them all first.”
Lolllll you dont get the option who dumb white bitch
Oh, Pan, she thought. Are you satisfied now?
Wut
saw the sergeant was holding something out to her. It was her spectacles, with one lens broken and one arm missing. She took them without a word.
Oh yeah she forgpt she was supposed to need glasses
It was only then that she noticed that she hadn’t seen the woman’s dæmon. And with a little jolt she realized that the men had no dæmons either.
Perhaps these poor people had to do the job they did because, without having dæmons, they were less than human in the eyes of their society.
She hated it, but she could see the sense.
Girl that much cloth is a huge investment for these people not to mention its a critically important garmwnt for Yozdah. Does she even have a spare?
She bitterly regretted having nothing to give them but money, and thought briefly of offering them a couple of coins, but feared that they’d feel she was insulting their hospitality.
Yeah i feel like this might be worth asking the cards about
And little by little she began to feel a kind of freedom in this state.
She wished Bud Schlesinger would suddenly appear to guide her calmly through the maze of difficulties here, or Anita, to keep her cheerful with encouragement and conversation, or Malcolm—
Needs men help or a gal pal
how long ago that seemed!
trying to make us feel much has changed
I could tell you of examples of real spiritual evil arising in places where…among people who…No,
