At 00:55 21/02/2008, you wrote:
>I woul imagine that part of Pullman's reason for using unfamiliar words was
>to highten the sense of Lara's world being 'different' though familiar
>e.gthe odd words for electricity ?"anbaric" and gas. I loved this
>sense of
>gentle dislocation and really enjoyed some of the ideas exposed in the firs=
>t
>2 books. I haven't seem the film and am a bit anxious to do so as the clips
>I have seen do not altogether gel with my imagined Lara's Oxford. In
>contrast, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings seemed to mesh perfectly with m=
>y
>own vision of Middle Earth.
>
>Ian
I didn't highlight any of the words that appeared to be used in that
way for the very reason you suggest.
Experimental theology sounded fun, and some might wonder if he was
pointing a bit of a finger at scientific arrogance as well as
religious dogmatism. But none of the "messages" he's been accused of
deliberately planting in the books are without contradiction from
within the books themselves - not a bad metaphor for some aspects of life.
As well as LOTR and LWW it reminded me of the much shorter The
Chrysalids which is somewhere on our bookshelves.
Julian
(Not seen the film)
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