One of my favorite authors. Such an imaginative and inspiring voice.
@marion4549
Жыл бұрын
He's a brilliant author. Thanks!
@karenrhoads1598
Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed Pullman's trilogy...there were powerful insights on what "othering" can do to people; those who "other" & those who are "othered" all within the confines of a particular narrative. The books are well written.
@garykellam5596
Жыл бұрын
Life is too short to waste it learning trash or participating in folly.
@KAZVorpal
Жыл бұрын
Anyone who doesn't understand that a story works better if the characters all have complex lives outside of what is laid down in the text...is very limited as a storyteller. The best storytelling DOES involve a complex world (history, settings, plans for the future) that is not mentioned on the pages, but which by existing leaks into the text by subtle inference and indirect exposition. Frank Herbert was really only a mediocre Science Fiction writer, until he was working on a novel he felt he couldn't get just right...so he started making up the whole world around it, its history going back millennia, societies and factions even on other planets from the one where the story takes place, et cetera. Then he rewrote that novel, and it became Dune. It's one of the greatest literary worlds, and it's because of exactly what those supposed "practitioners of literary theory" (clever oxymoron there) are said by Pullman to decry.
@KAZVorpal
Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of my objection with Samuel Clemens and Anton Chekov, who claimed that all elements of the story must be essential. This leads to the laughable trope of Chekov's Gun, where anything you see or that occurs, you can start forecasting will matter later, giving away the plot. A good story should be a real world. Things should happen or be seen that matter only to the broader reality, history, et cetera, but not matter to the story directly...because that's how things happen in the real world. Without it, your world won't FEEL real.
@horacelidenbrock3905
Жыл бұрын
Verisimilitude can be economical.
@KAZVorpal
Жыл бұрын
@@horacelidenbrock3905If you economize to the point of only reporting to the reader exactly what is relevant, you rob the story of all reality and relevance. That is not how the reader would perceive things, if he were really there.
@horacelidenbrock3905
Жыл бұрын
@@KAZVorpal I never claimed anything of the sort. I'd argue, however, that every word must have a purpose in a story. I don't disagree on the idea that characters can (and sometimes should) be rounded, but that's a very simplistic view of fiction. Flat characters can be very effective. Also, the relationship between characterisation and story is quite inextricable. A character is what it does.
@KAZVorpal
Жыл бұрын
@@horacelidenbrock3905Essentially, that's a sociopathic view of characters. Certainly, one can write a good story without any real characters. Heinlein would sometimes do that very well. But the best storytelling, overall, involves the characters not being "what it does", but what he or she is, as a sum of their whole lives and their future plans. This is exactly like a rational person sees everyone they encounter in real life.
@moondoggie32
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@macbump
Жыл бұрын
15:45 “little people”
@vdanger7669
Жыл бұрын
I chose the road less traveled..and everybody else transitioned, or er, headed off to fight in World War I. Or something.
@davidgalvez5341
Жыл бұрын
Philip Jose Farmer, a science fiction writer, "reverse enginneered" the Tarzan "wood" in many of his stories, working out ways in which Burroughs' hero could have possibly existed.
@MCsCreations
Жыл бұрын
Rules... That's why The Last Jedi broke Star Wars. 😕
@petramaas8574
Жыл бұрын
I guess it is the difference between phantasy and delusion. If we lose the sense of reality we lose our footing in the world.
@stephaniecarrow4898
Жыл бұрын
Good point. Fantasy implies the consciousness that it is different from reality. Delusion implies the absence of that consciousness.
@mollyshredder
Жыл бұрын
The problem w this conversation is it allows other ppl to hate certain kinds of people. Why can't we simply stop giving license to hate?
@Gracie2276
Жыл бұрын
--- please look into Reedly California Covid lab!
@Cdarlosfletch58
Жыл бұрын
Acting out your fantasy’s ! but you always have to come back to reality !!
@davidgalvez5341
Жыл бұрын
"Kindness" based on fiction internalized as reality is a sugar coated lie.
@davidcolby1456
Жыл бұрын
I have noticed that the trolls on your podcast are getting very, very sophisticated.
@horacelidenbrock3905
Жыл бұрын
I used to think I ought to like Pullman, but when I realised His Dark Materials is openly satanic... Let's just say I'd rather re-read "On Fairy Stories" by Prof. Tolkien.
@KAZVorpal
Жыл бұрын
What Pullman is describing, RE the history and plans of characters, is exactly what Tolkien used in creating and writing about Middle Earth.
@MCsCreations
Жыл бұрын
Do not listen to AC/DC then. (And no, it's not satanic either...)
@horacelidenbrock3905
Жыл бұрын
@@MCsCreations I really like AC/DC. His Dark Materials takes the side of the fallen angels in their struggle against God. There's an obvious, albeit misguided and clumsy, reference to Milton's Paradise Lost.
@horacelidenbrock3905
Жыл бұрын
@@KAZVorpal Pullman called the Lord of the Rings "trivial" and Lewis's Narnia "racist". I don't know what you're referring to, but I don't really care about Pullman's opinion, even on his own body of work.
@patrickoloan4446
Жыл бұрын
@@horacelidenbrock3905oh, it’s definitely referencing Milton. I enjoyed it the first time round but now I see it as emblematic of the failure of the postmodern ideology to address some of the most fundamental issues of the human experience. It’s a profoundly unsatisfying worldview, and at a complete loss when dealing with difficult problems like suffering, meaning and truth.
@Heywood.Jablome
Жыл бұрын
I ❤ Heather 🥰
@blakereneehope
Жыл бұрын
I want to know of the Octavia book sounds fascinating.
@dougg1075
Жыл бұрын
I wanna know what you guys thought a Sam Harris is unhinged interview the other day
@porlawright
Жыл бұрын
Who with?
@patrickoloan4446
Жыл бұрын
Poor, old Philip Pullman - after a promising start, he descended into a somewhat humiliating old age, saying silly things and supporting foolish causes.
@macbump
Жыл бұрын
17:43 yes it is. It definitely is. I am someone who is XXY. I have a friend who is too and is a woman in her feelings, but was the sperm donor “dad” for her babies. But she’s a woman. She feels like a woman exactly like kids who have been subjected to botched surgeries (ie circumcision) and forced to “grow up as a girl” DONT FEEL LIKE GIRLS. You can’t force someone to feel the wrong gender for them.
@K-NectingDots
Жыл бұрын
Sure, but Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY Syndrome) has other variations itself, with more severe symptoms, not good things hence the point that it is an anomaly, aberrancy or illness and not something that we would want to promote as normal or encourage existence of. When found, true compassionate care is needed...not dangerous virtue signaling mass push for the butchering of children in our society....those measures should be far and few between and for adults only. No ill intent, just saying.
@tracimiller3702
Жыл бұрын
A woman does not produce sperm.
@macbump
Жыл бұрын
14:44 this would include transphobes.
@Red_Black_Key
Жыл бұрын
It includes everyone. We can hear out anyone's subjective viewpoint.....and STILL, ultimately, disagree with it.
@J.A.706
Жыл бұрын
Yet we don't want to go too far in the other direction. Sure, in this world we can't shape-shift to another gender or sprinkle fairy dust on the stub of someone's cut off finger so the entire finger grows back perfect and new. And, the lady wearing the purple gown with yellow moons and stars sure seems to be making a lot of money telling all the women who pay her a fee that they were Cleopatra in their past life. But people also once "knew" that radio waves couldn't possibly exist and "knew" that invisible little creatures couldn't possibly be causing illnesses. But they were wrong. They only saw and believed what they saw and believed currently. There really is a whole lot of hard to believe mystery left to be explored and discovered. Let's don't close off our sense of wonder and possibility because of abusive situations like our neighbor's daugther, Susie now being their son, Sam and we discover that 284,558,284 other women also believe they were Cleopatra. Even if it takes fiction to hint at the possibility, let's stay both grounded and reaching skyward.
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