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The Trout is a real pub, and still standing, with peacocks strutting through the garden just as Pullman describes. Three miles up the river Thames from the center of Oxford, some distance from where the great colleges of Jordan, Gabriel, Balliol, and two dozen others contended for mastery in the boat races, out where the city was only a collection of towers and spires in the distance over the misty levels of Port Meadow, there stood the Priory of Godstow, where the gentle nuns went about their holy business and on the opposite bank from the priory there was an inn called the Trout. There you go, I stole Malcolm's name." He beams. Explaining this, he pauses, squints, and adds, "I'm not even sure the captain's name isn't Malcolm! Let me just have a look." He lifts himself out of his chair, locates the book, and flips through the first few pages. Pullman was inspired by sources as diverse as Edmund Spenser's poem "The Faerie Queene," his auntie Ethel, who is transmuted into a sweet nun who befriends Malcolm, and a ship captain in the novel Pandora's Galley, by MacDonald Harris.
(Pullman is eager to avoid any whiff of a spin-off: "I'm insistent to a degree that is tremendously boring that this is not a continuation, it is not a sequel, it is an equel. The new protagonists, Malcolm and Alice, appeared only briefly and obscurely in other parts of the story. It's the story of how Lyra, the hero of the first three books, came to live at Oxford's Jordan College, to be raised piecemeal by scholars. La Belle Sauvage is the first in a new trilogy called The Book of Dust. I'm insistent to a degree that is tremendously boring that this is not a continuation, it is not a sequel, it is an equel. The novels are based on a simple idea: What if, when Adam and Eve had their eyes opened in the Garden of Eden, it was a liberation, not a fall? Or, as Malcolm asks early on in La Belle Sauvage, "How can knowing something be bad?" To the Magisterium, Dust is "physical evidence for original sin" and must be destroyed.
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That world is a grand, morally kaleidoscopic one, full of armored bears, airships and shamans, ruled by a cruel Christian theocracy called the Magisterium. Pullman has given his spangled ring to Malcolm, the 11-year-old protagonist of his new book, La Belle Sauvage, as the character's first hint of Dust, those particles of consciousness that saturate the splendid, Miltonesque world of Pullman's His Dark Materials series. He knows there is some clinical explanation for the lights he sees, "wires crossed somewhere," but has always thought there was a significance beyond the science. Occasionally it is painful, but it usually it leaves him dozy. It's called a migraine aura, and it lasts about twenty minutes. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. In this thoroughly revised Fourth Edition, author and business valuation expert Patrick Gaughan provides a fresh perspective on M&As in today's global business landscape, and how your company can reap the benefits from the various forms of restructurings available.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Book of Dust Subtitle La Belle Sauvage Author Philip Pullman Written from a practical and historical perspective, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings, Fourth Edition carefully analyzes the strategies and motives that inspire M&As, the laws and rules that govern the field, as well as the offensive and defensive techniques of hostile acquisitions. Modern restructuring techniques for a global business landscapeĬorporate restructurings are an indispensable tool in building a new generation of re-engineered companies with the power and resources to compete on a global playing field.