under the seaBetween Asriel Belacqua and Marisa Coulter, I choose Lyra Silvertongue.
Lord Asriel's dream couldn't help but reminds me of that of Professor X's. But Asriel is not Professor X. Professor X is kind and compassionate and caring and has sheer empathy for everyone, no matter where he goes. Someone like that would NEVER be okay with child-cutting for the sake of winning some war. Full stop.😢
His Dark Materials里发生的在小孩子身上实验“精灵切割”，在Lyra的世界被有良知的人们视为最残忍邪恶无法原谅的举动，因为这是扼杀孩子的灵魂。当年看到这个“切割”情节的时候十分震撼但也十分熟悉，首先想到的是现实中墙内的教育系统，和他们的切割一样让数不清的人对一切失去好奇和兴趣，失去共情、爱与被爱的能力和自主意识，只乖乖听话不再质疑反思不懂保护自己，活脱脱就是大型精灵切割社会实验…这大概也是为什么我能对Lyra的愤怒感同身受、并且对她了解真相后为保护自己真正的家人和朋友挺身而出反抗妈妈无比赞同的原因。
"The ultimate point of celebrating Banned Books Week is not to defend challenged books against specific charges, but to celebrate the freedom to read.
And the freedom to read includes the freedom to read books that are maybe a little old for us, or over our heads, or take us in a direction we weren’t planning on going. To read books that contain ideas that we might not agree with, and to sharpen our own ideas by comparison. ...
And the freedom to read includes the freedom to read books that are maybe a little old for us, or over our heads, or take us in a direction we weren’t planning on going. To read books that contain ideas that we might not agree with, and to sharpen our own ideas by comparison. ...
The freedom to find our own way, to have adventures and get a little lost and then find our way back, and be the wiser for it—just like Lyra."
If not for Lyra, I'd never know that every year in the last week of September there's an actual Banned Books Week!
If not for Lyra, I'd never know that every year in the last week of September there's an actual Banned Books Week!
Okay I have a million things I want to say about this and I don't know where to start...
“第一个离开死亡世界的鬼魂是罗杰。他朝前迈一步，转身回头看着莱拉，发现自己正在化入夜晚、星空、空气中……他惊奇地笑着，然后不见了，留下一缕细微又生动的幸福感，让威尔想起香槟杯中的泡泡。”
“李·斯科尔斯比最后一小片意识向上漂浮穿过厚重的云层，像他的气球曾做过多次的那样 […] 来到明亮的星空下，那里他心爱的精灵赫斯特的原子正在上空等着他。”
—Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, chapter 26 & 31
“李·斯科尔斯比最后一小片意识向上漂浮穿过厚重的云层，像他的气球曾做过多次的那样 […] 来到明亮的星空下，那里他心爱的精灵赫斯特的原子正在上空等着他。”
—Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, chapter 26 & 31
You've got to be kidding me! No wonder it sounds kinda familiar. Okay I only just realised now that the HDM theme songs I've been looping are from the same composer of the music of AC3. What a small world…Hamilton, X-Men and now this. This HDM series is like a triple crossover. How many more, I wonder? 🤔
(Come to think of it, I never really finished that AC3 game a few years ago. Had a HUGE problem with the taking of life and the killings and I stopped. But I remember the music pretty well.)
(Come to think of it, I never really finished that AC3 game a few years ago. Had a HUGE problem with the taking of life and the killings and I stopped. But I remember the music pretty well.)
