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Overview and tentative vindication of Xenogears' opening chapters of disc 2 

Leanna, aka Musical33, mod on the HDM Fandom Wiki, joins me once again, this time for a joyous discussion of season one of the new series. Spoilers abound! 

https://hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/f 

On ch 3 Scavengers and ch 4 Ama and the Bats, of The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman 

with "The Knight's Tomb," by Coleridge and "She lay as if at play," by Dickinson 

https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2020/02/gamecool-books-amber-spyglass.html 

The Gamecool Books podcast turns to The Amber Spyglass, the concluding volume in His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. Long-form discussions of the intertextual goodness branching out from the book in all directions, and of the depiction of consciousness at its heart, will be posted on a weekly-or-so basis, along with conversations with other fans and scholars. This page will also be updated with recommended additional reading to accompany our deep dive into Pullman's work. I welcome any questions or comments. Enjoy! 

This episode covers Ch 1 The Enchanted Sleeper and Ch 2 Balthamos and Baruch. 

Recommended Reading: 

Blake, America A Prophecy 

Rilke, The Third Elegy 

Ashbery, The Ecclesiast 

Blake, The Little Girl Lost 

Job 4 

"The Man Who Walked with God: Philip Pullman's Metatron, the Biblical Enoch, and the Apocrypha," John Haydn Baker. In Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Barfield and Cox ed. 

In which we range over the contexts for game- and god-talk, with genial insights from my guest Moses Norton and some great audience input--many thanks to the Well-Red Mage for hosting my writing, cross-releasing this episode (with augmented audio) on his podcast, and letting me host him on this show!

https://thewellredmage.com/

and see his Chrono Trigger dissertation 

Gabriel joins me to discuss the massive, rich, and challenging new book, The Secret Commonwealth, the second volume of Philip Pullman's Book of Dust. 

After this interlude, I'll be picking up with The Amber Spyglass shortly! 

Thanks for listening.  

https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2019/05/gamecool-books-subtle-knife-by-philip.html  

On Solaris, where we're head over heels, and on to the end of Disc 1 of Xenogears. If anyone knows what Citan's sword is saying with his elemental attacks, please teach me that sophistry or poetry or whatever it might be! 

https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2019/05/bookwarm-games-xenogears.html 

On ch 14: Alamo Gulch, in The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman

On Xenogears' destroy the gate generator missions: the omnigear in the Mausoleum, the Republic of Aveh, tag-team battles on Babel Tower and Ft. Jasper, and Emeralda in Sargasso 

With thanks to the Retrograde Amnesia podcast for a kind shout-out, and to Karnegal at the Let's Play Archive