Actually, I don't think the physical presence of the souls is really that enlightening. Remember, Mrs. Coulter manages to remain morally ambiguous throughout pretty much the whole series...if I remember correctly, Lyra trusts her at first, then thinks she's basically the devil incarnate, and...I'm not sure I ever figured out whether she was a good guy or a bad guy in the end. O_o
Interesting thought--what if the form of the soul, like the alethiometer, can tell you volumes if you know how to read it, but to most it's a total enigma?
I'd kind of prefer Narnia as a childhood adventure, actually... But perhaps I'm just partial to it because it was one of my first novels ever, and certainly my first fantasy novel. It shall always have a special place in my <3...
Touché with respect to Mrs. Coulter. Also, I thought it was really weird after reading the first that there was a bad woman with blond hair whose last name was "Coulter."
Interesting thought indeed. But some are really easy to read, like the servants' dogs, for instance. And the witches', though I can't remember what they actually were. Crows? Ravens?
Narnia...I've only read one Narnia book. HDM might will have a special place in my heart.
Hmmm, good point. I guess the readability of the soul depends on the complexity of the person? In which case, the soul still doesn't make *that* much of a difference, because people whose souls are easy to read would be easy to read already.
I read ALL of them! :) But I went back and reread some of them in ninth grade, and The Horse And His Boy, at the very least, seemed a lot lamer then. I read all the books until that point (except The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, because my brother had it at the time), and then got REALLY BORED on that one and stopped. Though I think I found that one slower when I was a kid, too.
Have you seen the Narnia movie? It's AMAZING. :D (The HDM is pretty good, too, but I noticed more glaring inconsistencies...though that might just be because it's been a decade and a half since I read Narnia O_o)
I would not want to be Lyra. She nearly has her soul cut out, she has to travel to the land of the dead and have a thousand dead people steal her body warmth, and she can never see the boy she loves again. :(
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Interesting thought--what if the form of the soul, like the alethiometer, can tell you volumes if you know how to read it, but to most it's a total enigma?
I'd kind of prefer Narnia as a childhood adventure, actually... But perhaps I'm just partial to it because it was one of my first novels ever, and certainly my first fantasy novel. It shall always have a special place in my <3...
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Interesting thought indeed. But some are really easy to read, like the servants' dogs, for instance. And the witches', though I can't remember what they actually were. Crows? Ravens?
Narnia...I've only read one Narnia book. HDM might will have a special place in my heart.
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I read ALL of them! :) But I went back and reread some of them in ninth grade, and The Horse And His Boy, at the very least, seemed a lot lamer then. I read all the books until that point (except The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, because my brother had it at the time), and then got REALLY BORED on that one and stopped. Though I think I found that one slower when I was a kid, too.
Have you seen the Narnia movie? It's AMAZING. :D (The HDM is pretty good, too, but I noticed more glaring inconsistencies...though that might just be because it's been a decade and a half since I read Narnia O_o)
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