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]

I loved St. John's. Dearly. The way we do our education, all the reading from primary sources, is fantastic. Technically, my BA is in Liberal Arts, and while I usually can't remember all seven, we did study them all. But a BA in Liberal Arts is the kind of thing that is hard to explain to grad schools and potential employers, and so we also have this spiel of "the equivalent of a double major in Philosophy and the History of Math and Science and double minor in Classics and Comp Lit."

I went to SJC for everything but the Philosophy. I thought I could work around it, and I was mostly right, but most people care about it more than me.