Never read Phillip Pulman, but had this interesting interview brought to my attention.
http://filmchatblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/philip-pullman-extended-e-mail.html with Pullman (of His Dark Materials and Golden Compass fame) : [Quote] Finally, back to Dust. And again I'm giving things away that might spoil the story, but Dust is my metaphor for all the things that your atheist materialist friend no doubt believes in as firmly as I do: human wisdom, science and art, all the accumulated and transmissible achievements of the human mind. This is both material (located in books, etc, and in living people who can talk about it) and, like consciousness, seemingly non-material. But without matter, it wouldn't be there at all. Everything that is Dust is the result of the amorous inclinations of matter (Blake: "Eternity is in love with the productions of Time"). [Unquote] The amorous inlcinations of matter ? Hmm. I'd say physical rather than material, but hey ... Lots of other provocative stuff in there too. Regards Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
