twins & daemons

[ewein2412]

so, I am in the middle of The Thirteenth Tale - which, although I am enjoying immensely, has started to feel very derivative of A.S. Byatt in general and of Angels and Insects in particular. But the description of singlets as amputees, constantly in search of a soulmate, has suddenly catapulted me onto a tangent.

Are there any twins in the world of His Dark Materials? Does anyone remember? WHAT ARE THEIR DAEMONS LIKE? Do identical twins have identical demons? Do boy/girl twins have the same kind of daemon, but with the sex switched? Could a pair of identical twins share a single daemon, the way they might invent their own language??? If they then grew apart, or if one of them died, what would happen to the shared daemon?

I want to read this story, being too lazy to write it.

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[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Medraut feeling up Goewin was so weird and off putting I had blocked it.

[ewein2412]

you just didn't get it when you were ten...

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I was 13.

The biggest difference between me at 10 and me and 13 and noticing that is that me at 10 would have not got it, and by 13 I had read all the Greek mythology I could get my hands on, up to and including Homer and Aeschylus, and if you're that immersed in Ancient Greek weirdness, someone feeling up his sister just doesn't register on scale of squick.

[ewein2412]

hee.

in re-reading The Horse Without a Head I can actually recognize the things I stumbled over when I was 7 and reading it for the first time - like "Polish pastry" I took for "polish pastry" (as in nail polish, not pastry from Poland) and "a thing that happened once in a blue moon" I took literally and thought it meant it was a thing that had happened once, a long time ago, when the moon was blue-looking

[3rdragon]

I think I must've, too, because I have no memory of it.

[ewein2412]

it was on the subtle side of subtle, in The Winter Prince.

[3rdragon]

I figured that it must be in The Winter Prince, since that's the only place it makes any kind of logical sense. I'll just have to re-read it when I get back home.