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.

Comments

[3rdragon]

Me, too. And do you notice that the three of us have accumulated over thirty comments of babble?

[ewein2412]

how could I fail to notice that!

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Without Gmail's handy conversation threading. This has been remarkably hard to follow.

[3rdragon]

I think that what I find hardest to follow about it is that only Elizabeth is notified every time someone replies. (And if I forget to log in before posting, I don't even know when one of you has replied to me.) Although now that it's getting this complicated, it is beginning to feel rather like trying to keep track of all the ends of a fractal.