I really like Pullman’s idea of Dust…
especially in connection with the idea of the Collective Unconscious. This can be seen throughout The Golden Compass. It is interesting how Pullman depicts the Church in the story as trying to work against the work of studying Dust. The reader is left to speculate if the Church knows what dust is, or just assumes that it is evil.
It will be interesting to find out where Pullman will go with this. The story is obviously anti-established church, but I’m curious about why the church is wrong from Pullman’s perspective. So far the Church is depicted as being extremely overbearing and judgmental but I guess I have to wait and see if there are any other direct connections to the established church in our world.
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