Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Edward Hopper Railroad Sunset

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emphatic. "The man you knew as Sir Charles Latrom had to return to his own world periodically; he could not live permanently in mine. The philosophers of the Guild of the Torre degli Angeli, who traveled between worlds for three hundred years or more, found the same thing to he true, and gradually their world weakened and decayed as a result.
"And then there is what and die. We can travel, if there are openings into other worlds, but we can only live in our own. Lord Asriel's great enterprise will fail in the end for the same reason: we have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.
"Will, my boy, you and Lyra can go out now for a brief rest; you need that, and you deserve it; but then you must come back into the dark with me and Mr. Scoresby for one last journey."
Will and Lyra exchanged a look. Then he cut a window, and it was the sweetest thing they had ever seen.happened to me. I was a soldier; I was an officer in the Marines, and then I earned my living as an explorer; I was as fit it's possible for a human to be. Then I walked out of my own world by accident, and couldn't find the way back. I did many things and learned a great deal in the world I found myself in, but ten years after I arrived there, I was mortally sick."And this is the reason for all those things: your daemon can only live its world it was born in. Elsewhere it will eventually sicken

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