"and we're all still here, by the grace of God"

Out of the Ground: Reading The Book of Dust La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

On ch 14 Lady With Monkey and ch 15 The Potting Shed

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholastica#:~:text=Scholastica%20is%20honored%20as%20a,feast%20day%20is%2010%20February. 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%202&version=KJV 

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/news/philip-pullman-his-dark-materials-harry-potter-jk-rowling-b2505475.html 

https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-o-worship-the-king

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/49495/in-1-john-58-is-the-reference-to-spirit-water-and-blood-an-allusion-to-jesus

https://www.patreon.com/posts/notes-on-phillip-158980054?source=storefront

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The indomitable Professor Kozlowski brings out his Notes on Philip Pullman for the History of British Magic lecture series, available on patreon and spotify:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/notes-on-phillip-158980054?source=storefront

In this preview, we work out ideas about how the dear bete noir Pullman and the redoubtable magus Alan Moore, among others, stack up in their recent books, The Rose Field and The Great When. (The Year of Worldbuilding this may be on Video Game Academy, but it sometimes feels like the Year of DFW--keep an eye out for Ben's upcoming Brutal Legend essay on https://videogameacademia.org/)

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On ch 12 and 13 of La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman.

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Gen 6-9

Joyce, "Araby"

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Slightly touching on 7, but mostly dealing with 6: the bowling green/model fortifications/paradise of Uncle Toby.

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Further hobby-horsical misadventures with our diverting narrator and the cast of his meandering novel.

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A taking stock and looking ahead sort of conversation in the middle of the journey of our life.

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Of names and noses, fortifications and divagations--and other hobby-horses.

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As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about the overview of a possible lecture series they've been cooking up on religious narratives in popular culture.

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As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about a biography of Dostoevsky (again), and then about a little-known masterpiece on philosophy of language...

Preliminary to a possible lecture series Ben's cooking up on religious narratives in popular culture.

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As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about a biography of Dostoevsky, and then about a film called The Book of Clarence...

Preliminary to a possible lecture series Ben's cooking up on religious narratives in popular culture.

Thanks for listening.