Fallout from the bombing and flashbacks.

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Dinner with Demon Veen.

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We look at the new version and its predecessors, as well as the as-yet-standalone Episode 33.

See Prof Noctis' playthrough for more in-depth commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1LF4fZYQfg

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Light and shadows in the Desert Palace and the candle-lit Esto Gaza; Mount Gulug, where Eiko gets a Ribbon; Lindblum, where the party gets an airship; Cid's transformation back to a human with his wife's forgiveness; and Garnet's recovery of her voice at her mother's resting place.

For more: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/

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"Coming of Age with Philip Pullman" - https://www.publicbooks.org/coming-of-age-with-philip-pullman/

The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137523952#about

Many thanks to Dr Perrin - https://www.huntingdon.edu/directory/dr-tom-perrin/

On The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip PullmanCh 2: The Acornand 3: LyraRecommended reading and listening: On the name Lyra: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/01/how-philip-pullman-lyra-won-the-world Jesus Christ is Risen Today (Lyra Davidica): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zIGc2bWvc The Path Through the Wood, essay in Daemon VoicesJohn Rogers on Milton: https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-220/lecture-2 Milton, Nativity Ode: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44735/on-the-morning-of-christs-nativity Pullman on Bach: https://archive.org/details/bach.-a.-passionate.-life Pullman on Clockwork: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/22/philip-pullman-my-daemon-is-a-raven-la-belle-sauvage-interview-questions Eliot, The Journey of the Magi: https://poetryarchive.org/poem/journey-magi/ Some context for Pullman and poetry: https://aeon.co/essays/a-rare-interview-with-philip-pullman-the-religious-atheistFor more, see the course page: https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2026/01/out-of-ground-reading-book-of-dust-by.html Thanks for listening!

Complications arise in the form of sisters and Scrabble, and flowery long sentences and frank conversations conceal a key piece of the truth.

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More on the uses of ellipses, magical barriers, spirals, and holographic images and text, plus an adorable Chocobo-Black Mage interaction and frog-based mini-games not involving Quina! From the quicksand to the Forgotten Continent and Oeilvert (pun on oeil-ouvert?)

For more: https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/

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First impressions of the feted/infamous game of the year, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and thoughts on the legacy/genre in which it has suddenly come to feature so prominently.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wRVNWkEmhY

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

Course page: https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2026/01/out-of-ground-reading-book-of-dust-by.html Episode 1: A Philosopher's Apprentice

https://youtu.be/UBYHI-bNf14 Discussing La Belle Sauvage front matter and Chapter 1: The Terrace RoomSnow, by Louis MacNeice -

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91395/snow-582b58513ffae "I have the feeling this all belongs to me," Pullman's autobiographical sketch for Something About the Author, vol. 65 (circa Apr 1993) - https://web.archive.org/web/20071030002130/http://www.philip-pullman.com:80/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=84 Schubert's Trout Quintet, Rudin et al. fresh from youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhROkOrhF0 Gabriel Schenk's tour of Philip Pullman's Oxford - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVuZ2TvsQaY

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