Well, dissection is the name of the game in an English class, so I'm up for LHoD.
Had no idea that Pullman got so much of his stuff from somewhere else. Especially not something from 1684! Good grief! Will have to check that out at some point.
I was pretty surprised too. I read the Cavendish piece without knowing of the connection, and I kept thinking, "My GOD, this sounds like His Dark Materials! Pullman had to have read this!"
Helps to know some basics of Hinduism, I would think, but I got along just fine without reading the book on the daily life of Joe Hindu that my roommate told me I HAD to read before I read it. ;) Mostly, it's good to be able to remember who the different gods are. Anything else is a bonus.
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Date: 2009-03-07 04:41 pm (UTC)Had no idea that Pullman got so much of his stuff from somewhere else. Especially not something from 1684! Good grief! Will have to check that out at some point.
I was pretty surprised too. I read the Cavendish piece without knowing of the connection, and I kept thinking, "My GOD, this sounds like His Dark Materials! Pullman had to have read this!"
Helps to know some basics of Hinduism, I would think, but I got along just fine without reading the book on the daily life of Joe Hindu that my roommate told me I HAD to read before I read it. ;) Mostly, it's good to be able to remember who the different gods are. Anything else is a bonus.
Excellent.