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PHILIP PULLMAN'S His Dark Materials at the National confirms a startling new trend for finding God's fallen agents in the new theatre of the New Year.
It is surely no accident that we soon shall have two new theatrical presentations (at the Bristol Old Vic and the Theatre Royal, Northampton) of John Milton's Paradise Lost, a work to which Pullman refers constantly.See the full content of this document
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Mystical Tales of Mice and Men
In all the discussion of the technical feats and spiritual daemons in His Dark Materials (which I reviewed in full earlier this week), it is easy to forget that the story actually describes the death of God and the idea that a new Republic of Heaven should be founded in our own lives without reference to a higher plane: 'There is no elsewhere.' The other life, in other words, is one that is part of the life we alr...
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