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Post by sickmouthy on Mar 2, 2007 13:57:11 GMT
I'm currently re-reading the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, and noticed a passage towards the end of The Amber Spyglass, when Mrs Coulter is being taken to the hydro-anbaric power station to power the bomb, a line of which reads "the high-pitched singing of the wind in the wires".
Is Patrick a Pullman fan? Or has that turn of phrase been used before? Or is it just coincidence?
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Post by 0-0 on Mar 2, 2007 14:54:45 GMT
Isn't "wind in the wires" quite a common phrase? I'm sure I've heard it before Patrick ever used it...
I quite like Phillip Pullman, but Northern Lights was the best book out of that trilogy...
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Post by sickmouthy on Mar 2, 2007 15:25:56 GMT
I first read the trilogy a few years ago and loved it, but my memory had kind of settled on the fact that Northern Lights was the best book of it. Re-reading it, I've enjoyed it all equally, I think. But I'd still probably pick NL as "the best of the three" if pushed - I guess cos it's the first one it's more self-contained.
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Post by sickmouthy on Mar 2, 2007 15:26:41 GMT
Also googling "wind in the wires" produces LOTS of refs to Patrick, a Waterboys song, a book on aviation and a couple of sailing references.
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Post by jay on Mar 2, 2007 15:32:26 GMT
there you go ;D
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Post by batgirl on Mar 2, 2007 15:39:53 GMT
Roll on May when I can re-read the trilogy.
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Post by Clare on Mar 4, 2007 18:19:23 GMT
I'm currently re-reading the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman So am I (just started TAS again today). Coincidence? I think not. |
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Post by gecko on Mar 4, 2007 18:46:31 GMT
I left the trilogy on a Scottish island after I'd finished reading them. Now I kind of wish I hadn't! May have to visit the library and re-read them sometime, they are such fantastic books.
x
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Post by arielle on Mar 6, 2007 20:17:48 GMT
Oh yes. Philip Pullman. I must have read His Dark Materials about 5 times over. I loved them when I was little and each time I read them I understood them more and more. They're still really facinating and religious/(anti).
I can't really see a direct connect to Patrick.... maybe.
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Post by chloelovespw on Jan 9, 2008 7:29:14 GMT
the golden compass was required reading for school...
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Post by tombland on Jan 9, 2008 11:25:07 GMT
That's well good.
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Post by Chloë on Jan 12, 2008 12:34:06 GMT
  Imagine if someone bought that accidentally off ebay.... |
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Post by cameraobscura on Jan 27, 2008 19:36:49 GMT
haha that would be hilarious, they'd probably think he went for a really conceptual angle on album two
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Post by Flangelus on Jul 3, 2008 17:45:56 GMT
haha that would be hilarious, they'd probably think he went for a really conceptual angle on album two That just made me literally roll on the floor laughing!! Granted I fell of my chair, in the first place.. But still! ;D I'd love it so much if that were true. But then they wouldn't hear Teignmouth..  xox |
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