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 | | The Authority (His Dark Materials) The Authority in Inquisition. | | | Dust (His Dark Materials) Warning: Plot details follow. | | | His Dark Materials His Dark Materials is a Philip Pullman. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/materials.html
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| | The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book III) - PowerBookSearch! |
| | Philip Pullman deftly brings the cliffhangers and mysteries of His Dark Materials to an earth-shattering conclusion and confirms his fantasy trilogy as an undoubted and enduring classic. | | | In concluding the spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy, Pullman produces what may well be the most controversial children's book of recent years. | | | SHORT DESCRIPTION: In Pullman's astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will must journey to a dark and gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. |
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http://www.powerbooksearch.com/booksearch0440418569.html
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Philip Pullman's Dark Materials |
| | Of course, God, or the Authority, no longer runs the daily affairs of the kingdom in His Dark Materials. | | | In his "worlds," there are computers that talk to elementary particles fashioned of the dark materials, flesh-eating "Cliff-Ghasts," flights of beautiful witches many thousands of years old, myriads of angels, talking ten-foot-tall armored bears, wheeled creatures — "mulefas" — with elephant-like trunks, "gyptians," "Specters," Africans, and Tartars. | | | Indeed, Pullman has taken the trilogy's overall title, His Dark Materials, from another account of the fall, Milton's Paradise Lost. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4004
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| | Cathy McSporran - The Kingdom of God, the Republic of Heaven... |
| | The Authority’s forces practise what in the universe of His Dark Materials is the ultimate cruelty: the process known as ‘intercision’, the severing of the psychic link between a human and his or her companion animal-spirit, known as the ‘daemon’. | | | Religious law, in His Dark Materials, is the ‘life-hating ideology’ that Pullman perceives in The Chronicles of Narnia. | | | Asriel is one of the few morally ambiguous characters in His Dark Materials. |
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http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/e-sharp/articles/autumn_2003/Cathy_McSporran-Kingdom_of_God.htm
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Philip Pullman's Dark Materials |
| | The above quotation alone — a broadside against the traditional Judeo-Christian vision of God ("the Authority") as good and the "rebel angels," or demons, as evil — is evidence that his trilogy, as the advertisement puts it, "is not your sword-and-sorcery escapism. | | | Of course, God, or the Authority, no longer runs the daily affairs of the kingdom in His Dark Materials. | | | In his "worlds," there are computers that talk to elementary particles fashioned of the dark materials, flesh-eating "Cliff-Ghasts," flights of beautiful witches many thousands of years old, myriads of angels, talking ten-foot-tall armored bears, wheeled creatures — "mulefas" &; with elephant-like trunks, "gyptians," "Specters," Africans, and Tartars. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4004
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Philip Pullman's Dark Materials |
| | The above quotation alone — a broadside against the traditional Judeo-Christian vision of God ("the Authority") as good and the "rebel angels," or demons, as evil — is evidence that his trilogy, as the advertisement puts it, "is not your sword-and-sorcery escapism. | | | Of course, God, or the Authority, no longer runs the daily affairs of the kingdom in His Dark Materials. | | | In his "worlds," there are computers that talk to elementary particles fashioned of the dark materials, flesh-eating "Cliff-Ghasts," flights of beautiful witches many thousands of years old, myriads of angels, talking ten-foot-tall armored bears, wheeled creatures — "mulefas" &; with elephant-like trunks, "gyptians," "Specters," Africans, and Tartars. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4004
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| | Is Dust God? |
| | Several people responding to this feature have put forward the idea that the real parallel in 'His Dark Materials' is not between 'the Authority' and God, but between Dust and God. | | | The BBC 'His Dark Materials' web site, with audio of the Radio 4 broadcasts from January 2003, starring Lulu Poppleswell as Lyra, Dan Anthony as Will, Emma Fielding as Mrs Coulter and Terence Stamp as Lord Asriel. | | | Instead, the Authority represents all of the cruelties and atrocities commited over the years by people 'in the name of God', such as the Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition. |
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http://www.facingthechallenge.org/ppfaq03.htm
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| | The Washington Monthly |
| | The third book is something of a let-down as Pullman's "His Dark Materials" becomes "His Many Loose Ends". | | | How can "His Dark Materials" be "anti-religious" if there is a real God in these books. | | | I recall reading an interview with Pullman about a year ago wherein he signed off on the reduction of the Authority in the movie from a religious idea to a more general idea of "authority/authoritarianism", which he found to be perfectly in keeping with his theme anyway. |
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_08/006906.php
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| | Pullman, His Dark Materials (060pulp1) |
| | The major strength of His Dark Materials is that Pullman never condescends, never relies upon allusion for the entire meaning of his complex prose, never answers questions about the core issues of the novel. | | | The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book III). | | | This includes, but is not limited to, translation or other creation of derivative works, use in advertising or other publicity materials without prior authorization in writing, or any other non-private use that falls outside the fair use exception specified in Title 17 of the United States Code. |
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http://savage.authorslawyer.com/reviews/060pulp1.shtml
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - His Dark Materials Box Set - Philip Pullman - Paperback - BOXED SET PAPERBACK |
| | In my opinion, HARRY POTTER, THE MISTS OF AVALON, HIS DARK MATERIALS, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS are the greatest fantasy novels ever written. | | | With stunning, newly repackaged covers, this boxed set contains the three His Dark Materials novels that captured fantasy lovers' imaginations: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. | | | Phillip Pullman& book trilogy “His Dark Materials” is incredibly interesting. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0375823360
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| | Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy - A review by Pat Dawe, Germantown Academy |
| | But there is also a serious depth to these books as the children deal with the Religious Authority, search for dust the essence of the universe, while moving from one world into another and then back. | | | Instead of children learning to play the game of quidditch on flying broomsticks at Hogwarts School of Witchraft and Wizardry, in the Dark Materials Trilogy we have Will and Lyra, two children from parallel worlds, who bond as they pursue their individual coming-of-age searches. | | | Recently I finished The Amber Spyglass, the final volume of Philip Pullman& Dark Materials trilogy. |
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http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/US/Library/reviews/Pullman.htm
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| | The Authority (His Dark Materials) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, The Authority is the equivalent of God. | | | In his old age, The Authority appoints the tyrannical angel Metatron to act as regent of the Kingdom of Heaven. | | | The Authority was the first angel to come into existence, who (according to the angel Xaphania) seized power and claimed to be the creator of the multiverse. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authority_(His_Dark_Materials)
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| | The DVD Forums - His Dark Materials - Good news and Bad news |
| | The director and screenwriter of the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is to remove references to God and the church in the movie. | | | His feeling, and I say this with absolute certainty that I am not unfairly paraphrasing him, is that the "Authority" in question could represent any arbitrary establishment that curtails the freedom of the individual, whether it be religious, political, totalitarian, fundamentalist, communist, what have you. | | | Weitz said he had visited Pullman, who had told him that the Authority could "represent any arbitrary establishment that curtails the freedom of the individual, whether it be religious, political, totalitarian, fundamentalist, communist, what have you". |
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http://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/printthread.php?t=336540
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| | Telegraph Arts The Dark Materials debate: life, God, the universe... |
| | In the sort of creation myth that underlies His Dark Materials, which is never fully explicit but which I was discovering as I was writing it, the notion is that there never was a Creator, instead there was matter, and this matter gradually became conscious of itself and developed Dust. | | | Last Monday, the Archbishop spoke at Downing Street about His Dark Materials and he recommended it, saying that he was delighted to see large school parties in the audience and found it vastly encouraging. | | | PP: I don't want to use just my story to hog the argument, but there's a passage in His Dark Materials, when Mary Malone is on her own wondering and speculating about the nature of this mysterious thing that she's investigating, this thing we call Dust. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/03/17/bodark17.xml
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| | "The Dark Materials of Children's Fiction" by Sean O’Conaill |
| | His Dark Materials pits two twelve-year-olds against a villainous power called 'the church', to break its cosmic hold over multiple universes in the name of 'the Authority', an arrogant, deceitful and decrepit 'God'. | | | However, a morning spent interviewing six young Catholic readers of His Dark Materials, ranging in age from 12 to 17, has convinced me that there is no need for extreme alarm over the impact of these books. | | | His Dark Materials consists of three novels by Philip Pullman: Northern Lights, (known as The Golden Compass in the US), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~sm.oconaill/othpieces/darkmats.htm
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| | His Dark Materials BridgeToTheStars.Net |
| | The His Dark Materials trilogy is the masterpiece in three books by Philip Pullman, loosely based upon the classic Paradise Lost, and told with a power and skill matched by few other writers. | | | BridgeToTheStars.Net is proud to house the largest collection of international cover art for His Dark Materials, ranging from the normal American and British editions, to Hebrew, Chinese, Russian and 26 other countries. | | | The first book in Philip Pullmans acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy, The Golden Compass (published in countries that receive British editions of books as 'Northern Lights') has been made a Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year (1997), and a Booklist Editors Choice- Top of the List. |
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http://www.bridgetothestars.net/index.php?p=trilogy
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| | [His Dark Materials] The Bridge Through the Aurora |
| | In the His Dark Materials books, this is the object used by Lyra to help her on her quest. | | | We are seeking to make this the most complete compilation of information about His Dark Materials on the net. | | | Northern Lights- the title of the first book in the His Dark Materials trilogy in countries that receive British editions of books. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/realm/darkmaterials/encyclopaedia.html
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| | The Washington Monthly |
| | How can "His Dark Materials" be "anti-religious" if there is a real God in these books. | | | The third book is something of a let-down as Pullman's "His Dark Materials" becomes "His Many Loose Ends". | | | I recall reading an interview with Pullman about a year ago wherein he signed off on the reduction of the Authority in the movie from a religious idea to a more general idea of "authority/authoritarianism", which he found to be perfectly in keeping with his theme anyway. |
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_08/006906.php
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| | The Kirk Center |
| | Although Philip Pullman’s trilogy of fantasy books for children, His Dark Materials, is barely known in the United States, that is set to change. | | | God’s dark materials are the unformed matter that he could use to create other worlds. | | | Pullman makes a connection between dark materials, dark matter, and in the story, a newly discovered elementary particle, “dust,” which is attracted to consciousness and linked to “original sin.” |
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http://www.kirkcenter.org/bookman/44-1-bernthal.html
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| | Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: Ancient Gnosticism in Modern Atheist Clothing |
| | The complex plot of the His Dark Materials trilogy resists simple summary. | | | By the last, however, the agenda is the central focus, even involving a death-of-God scene in which Lyra kills the Authority, revealed to be a decrepit, runny-eyed old creature, whose dissipation into the atoms is accompanied by his own sigh of relief. | | | She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed. |
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http://www.talkaboutabook.com/group/rec.arts.books/messages/471022.html
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| | Philip Pullman: The Subtle Knife - an infinity plus review |
| | It could be argued that the very setting of His Dark Materials, its range of alternate worlds, is a metaphor for the free will the rebels seek: all options realized, in parallel, rather than the stable monolithic reality Authority desires. | | | In this, the second volume of His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman continues to develop the grand Miltonic scheme of an emerging masterpiece of modern Fantasy. | | | nonfiction - Northern Lights, the first volume of the His Dark Materials trilogy reviewed by Nick Gevers. |
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http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/subtle.htm
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| | hackwriters.com - Nothern Lights - Philip Pullman |
| | Quizzing people at my school I found I was the only one to have read any of the His Dark Materials series, however nearly seventy five percent of the class had read Harry Potter the others had heard of him. | | | The Dark Materials are a window into our world, a knife that reveals the stupidy of crass ambitions of many 'leaders'. | | | Northern Lights is number one in the Dark Materials trilogy. |
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http://www.hackwriters.com/NorthernLights.htm
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| | His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (2007) Movie Overview ~ Cast and Crew, Trailer, Pictures, Synopsis, Release Date - RopeofSilicon.com |
| | In the second and third books, the action moves between parallel universes as the girl meets a boy from our world and they join forces to overthrow the repressive authority that rules everything. | | | The first installment in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, based on the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogy, The Golden Compass is about a girl who travels to the far north to save her best friend, encountering shape-shifting creatures, witches and other fantastical characters along the way. | | | Register and subscribe to email alerts for His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass. |
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http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movies.php?id=2676
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| | DarkMark.Com Message Board > His Dark Materials |
| | I think that Authority is the fake god that humankind in Lyras world created to justify their evil. | | | I just wanted to add that the same people who are saying that "His Dark Materials" is sacriligious are the same people who are banning HP and saying it promotes witchcraft. | | | Jul 21 2004, 07:35 AM I am in the process of reading the third installment of a series of books called "His Dark Materials," and I gotta tell you... |
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http://www.darkmark.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t38244.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Rational magic |
| | Julia Eccleshare hails heretical fantasist Philip Pullman in his final part of the Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass | | | In his world, the temptation and fall are not the source of all human misery but the end of repression by what he calls "the Authority" and the beginning of liberation and freedom of thought. | | | One of the most eagerly awaited events of the children's publishing year will happen next week, when the third volume of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy finally hits the bookshops. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/childrenandteens/0,6121,388823,00.html
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| | sffworld.com - Dark Materials |
| | Though, the dark materials series is a little more "adult" than potter, I must add. | | | August 14th, 2001 08:25 AM I had somehow gotten the idea in my head that Dark Materials was more of a young adult type series. | | | The main story is of his niece, Lyra and how she tries to follow him as he crosses the barrier. |
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http://www.sffworld.com/forums/printthread.php?t=1881
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| | His Dark Materials at Olivier, NT |
| | Nicholas Hytner has dared to take Philip Pullmans classic trilogy His Dark Materials what else can you call a book that polled third position in the BBCs Big Read 100 most popular books and attempt to bring this mythical epic to life on the Olivier stage. | | | In Pullmans trilogy God is the Authority worshipped by a powerful hierarchical corrupt church, which opposes knowledge and freedom of expression and views sex as a loathsome, impure and corrupting vice. | | | In one of the many dark moments in the play children have their daemons forcefully removed from them in a horrific operation that leaves the child in a zombie-like condition. |
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http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/reviews/hisdarkmaterials04.htm
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| | Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass |
| | The Amber Spyglass brings Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy to a resounding conclusion. | | | Mary also builds the amber spyglass of the title which allows her to see and study the Dust, which the mulefa call sraf and which she calls dark matter. | | | Lord Asriel is massing his armies for his battle with Heaven, and two lesser angels, Balthemos and Baruch, approach Will Parry. |
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http://www.rambles.net/pullman_amber.html
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| | eSharp |
| | The Authority's forces practise what in the universe of His Dark Materials is the ultimate cruelty: the process known as 'intercision', the severing of the psychic link between a human and his or her companion animal-spirit, known as the 'daemon'. | | | Even more tellingly, Asriel kills the child in the same way the Authority's Church kills children -- by intercision -- cutting the psychic link between the boy and his daemon. | | | Like his namesake, Lord Asriel severs the link between the soul and the body, with no sign of regret or remorse; we are told that Roger was 'crying and pleading, begging, sobbing, and Lord Asriel took no notice except to knock him to the ground'. |
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http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/issue1/mcsporran2.htm
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