Digest urth.v030.n120

eli+ · 29 May 2001, 19:57 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: eli+ at gs211.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v030.n120
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 19:57:23
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Alice Turner wrote:
> > In a way, he did quite right.  I don't know that they would have
> > answered the way he wanted.  The honest story, I want to call it
> though
> > I really shouldn't, might be a tragedy.
>=20
> I'm not quite clear on what you mean with the above. Who is "he?"
> Pullman? Or "they?"

I meant "he" to be Pullman, and "they" to be Will and Lyra.  That is,
I think Pullman brute-forced the ending because if he hadn't, Lyra and
Will wouldn't have stayed apart the way he wanted them to.

--=20
     Eli Brandt  |  eli+ at cs.cmu.edu  |  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/

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