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

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

That is supposed to be 3 million light years, not parsecs. That doesn't actually make sense.

[3rdragon]

I thought that's probably what you meant.

I remembered Meg Murray-Megaparsec, but I haven't read A Wrinkle In Time in FAR too long.

Hm. The MCC library only has Dragons in the Waters. I think that's a definite oversight. I wonder if the innovative school library has any L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time is a kid's book, and it's been in print for a long time. Or maybe the BICs have a library. I should ask them the next time I'm in town. (Next question: does the conservative Christian family that disapproves of Harry Potter b/c "There is no good magic" also disapprove of L'Engle? There isn't *exactly* magic . . . I don't remember seeing any on their bookshelf, but it's not a terribly large fiction section. Probably just better to not go there.)

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

A Wrinkle in Time shows up on banned book lists all the time. So does Narnia. The conservative Christians who object to magic also object to dimension jumping angels.

Also, apparently once some middle school class was passing about A Wrinkle in Time because of the "graphic sex scene" which turned out to be a description of the tesseract. No. I don't get it either.

Dragons in the Waters was just no good. And I like Poly O'Keefe.

[(Anonymous)]

. . .

Now I really need to reread A Wrinkle in Time, and find out what one could possibly misconstrue that badly. Of course, middle schoolers might believe anything.

Madeleine L'Engle, though? Madeleine L'Engle's YA stuff? Just because A House Like A Lotus contained the most graphic sex scene I'd ever encountered at [whenever I read it] doesn't actually make it a graphic sex scene.

I don't know; Dragons in the Waters has its points. I'll admit that it's not her best.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

For reasons I don't actually understand, I can't seem to reply through LJ.

They were middle schoolers. I think it was the bit where they tesser onto the two dimensional planet, but I could be wrong about that. I met Madeleine L'Engle and she told us that story. (I don't actually remember much about the whole thing, except that it was intimidating beyond belief to meet her. Things occasionally bubble up in my memory about it, like this, apparently. Also, at some point some movie company was trying to buy the rights to The Arm of the Starfish, but they only wanted to make they could make it so Josh wasn't killed.)