Comments on: The Amber Spyglass http://tleaves.com/2005/02/10/the-amber-spyglass/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Francisco http://tleaves.com/2005/02/10/the-amber-spyglass/comment-page-1/#comment-955 Francisco Sun, 13 Feb 2005 06:50:42 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=304#comment-955 I found your article very insightful. I must admit I was charmed by the Oxford of the first book; this I can attribute to the subtle details as much as to the feeling of there being a complex world beyond the protagonist, of which we get a few hints. I too would have liked a better explanation of Dust, as one is led to expect some coherent theology behind that, harpies and everything else one finds on that third book. The only thing I can recall that positively angered me were the depictions of the archangel or the deity. I think that it would have been far more honest not to have any than to have pale caricatures and a "quest" to overtake them, through ridiculous stratagems. Or the liberated dead, hankering for oblivion and dissolution into nothingness. I understand it may be more symbolic than anything else, but it reads as painfully literal. It makes me wonder about the opposite, an apparently literal story that is a fable: Camus' The Plague. What do you think? I found your article very insightful. I must admit
I was charmed by the Oxford of the first book; this
I can attribute to the subtle details as much as
to the feeling of there being a complex world beyond the protagonist, of which we get a few hints.
I too would have liked a better explanation of Dust,
as one is led to expect some coherent theology behind that, harpies and everything else one finds on that third book.
The only thing I can recall that positively angered me were the depictions of the archangel or the deity. I think that it would have been far
more honest not to have any than to have pale caricatures and a “quest” to overtake them, through ridiculous stratagems. Or the liberated dead, hankering for oblivion and dissolution into nothingness. I understand it may be more symbolic than anything else, but it reads as painfully literal. It makes me wonder about the opposite, an apparently literal story that is a fable: Camus’ The Plague. What do you think?

]]> By: Gnutwillison T. Honkenoffenbach http://tleaves.com/2005/02/10/the-amber-spyglass/comment-page-1/#comment-954 Gnutwillison T. Honkenoffenbach Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:43:22 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=304#comment-954 Dear Sentient, As a fellow sentient sharing some of the same time in the Tune-a-verse I would like to make a comment regarding our fine feathered fellow sentients, The Penguin. Did you know that Penguins use smooth rounded stones as currency, exchanging them for personal favors? It is my firm belif that The Penguin can help mankind find a better future, living in peace and harmonious harmonica music witht the other sentients in the neighborhood of this watery planet called Earth. Kiss a Penguin today! Sincerely, Gnutie Dear Sentient,

As a fellow sentient sharing some of the same time in the Tune-a-verse I would like to make a comment regarding our fine feathered fellow sentients, The Penguin. Did you know that Penguins use smooth rounded stones as currency, exchanging them for personal favors? It is my firm belif that The Penguin can help mankind find a better future, living in peace and harmonious harmonica music witht the other sentients in the neighborhood of this watery planet called Earth. Kiss a Penguin today!

Sincerely,

Gnutie

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