Comments on: Pullman speaks in Oxford – a summary

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:59:38 +0000

Philip spoke on a British TV show last night and said that it will probably take another year to finish the Book of Dust. Considering the time it is/has taken him so far to write it, I’m guessing it will be a fairly big book. He is supposed to be reading from a new ‘unpublished’ work at his Pegasus Theatre event in November (see seperate thread)…could this be from the Book of Dust? Here’s hoping!!

By: Witch-girl

Witch-girl — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:31:44 +0000

Wow, that sounds very interesting! I absolutely can’t wait until TBoD comes out…Do you guys think that it’ll be a very long book, like maybe TGC-sized? Or will it be a very thin but interesting one, like LO?

By: Monica Edinger

Monica Edinger — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:35:33 +0000

The Kleist essay is here:
http://southerncrossreview.org/9/kleist.htm

By: australis

australis — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:38:16 +0000

Thanks Townie for the report. Sounds like it was an event worth attending.

Skye, you can find the Kleist essay “On the Marionette Theatre” reprinted in the book Darkness Visible, and I think there is a link to it somewhere on BttS. It touches on the change from innocence to experience as well and the losing of the “unconcious grace” of children, that PP mentions in relation to Lyra at the end of TAS.

By: ian

ian — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:26:14 +0000

I caaaaaaaaaaan’t wait until th Book of Dust comes out!!!!!
:0

By: Skye

Skye — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:51:11 +0000

“the Kleist story gave PP the inspiration for the Fencing chapter in NL/TGC”
Really, now. Interesting.

“I think he must have been a brilliant teacher.”
I often think that myself. Wouldn’t it have been amazing to be in one of his classes?

Thank you very much for the write-up!