![]() ![]() ![]() “It hasn’t happened yet… but it would be difficult, as it is difficult in our world,” he says. ![]() Given that daemons take the opposite gender to their human counterpart, I am curious whether he has tackled what happens if a character is not comfortable with their assigned gender. ‘With Covid we’re all reduced to a tweet’ “You don’t say, ‘Here’s a nice, new book all about depression! You’ll enjoy this!’” Literature often ignores depression, he thinks, “because it’s off-putting”. Pullman has his own demons – “I’ve had my own bouts with melancholia and various things”. Lyra’s daemon, for Pullman, is a useful metaphor – “for a psychological, emotional state that she hadn’t known before you could call it depression or melancholy”. Because I have other things I want to write.” “I’m still dealing with the results in the book I’m writing,” he says. ![]() Pullman describes “discovering how the crack” in the duo’s partnership that emerged in Serpentine became a “gulf” when he imagined her as a young adult. Soul proprietor: Lyra’s relationship with her daemon plays out (Photo: BBC) He is currently trying to finish the third instalment of The Book of Dust, which began with a prequel to Northern Lights before rejoining Lyra at university, grappling with her broken relationship with Pantalaimon in The Secret Commonwealth. ![]()
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