Monday, November 17

is for unicorn.















The Golden Compass:

• negative capability~ John Keats (pg 364)
• willing suspension of disbelief~ STC is needed to enter the book
• P. Pullman on literacy
• the lyre is lyra
• pgs 363-70 are VERY important
• nonsense is a way of clearing out the system
• you must forget what you know and be empty to accept and understand this book
• Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'
• Sunderland Ave pg 379
• Cats unlock the secrets/ uncertainties to show the reality
• deja-vu: 'almost a remembrance'
• aleitheometer: greek= truth/ takes away the forgetting
• Lethe: river of forgetfulness in Hades
• takes away the ignorance and helps to remember
• magic 8 ball... not the same thing
• Wallace Stevens 'auroras of autumn
• northern lights: 'colorful curtains'

• serpent in the garden/ serpent daemon reflection of self
• the idea of north vs the reality

• What does North mean? Stevens asks this too.
• All things are related so pay attention!
• titles are instruments
• I Ching
• compass: direction/ truth/ imagination
• Pullman thinks that he wrote for himself, but really you write for everyone