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Thursday, March 12, 2009
What I've read now
I'm at the part where Lyra, Will, and the 2 spies enter the world of the dead. Here they meet dead people and the way Pullman wrote it is really very interesting. After they enter the world of the dead, it looks exactly the same as the previous world except there were only dead people and their bodies in it. They meet one dead man first and then they discover a group of dead people all walking together in the same direction. They don't know where they are going but there is some strange instinct telling them to walk down the road. They all still look like people, they all can talk, its just that they're dead. After walking with the group, they see a "town of the dead" in the distance. They also see many other groups of dead people poeple walking towards it. The town is basically a slum, all the buildings are ruined, people live in poor homes etc... They continue to follow the group of dead people but or denied access to the world of the dead and are told to go to the holding room to wait until they die. In the holding room they find out that everyone has their own death that brings them to the world of the dead when the time is right...