Sublime

The two men walked together to the safety of the hall behind Bethesda, where time never passed, and never tried to: the white cloths on the trestle tables, the steel tea urns, the Ten Commandments bleeding ink behind their mottled glass, all resisted the ticking of the gallery clock.

He would make a lovely corpse. —Charles Dickens

Lyra marvelled at the effect hope could have.

‘Christabel LaMotte. Daughter of Isidore, the mythographer. Last Things. Tales Told in November. An epic called The Fairy Melusina. Very bizarre. Do you know about Melusina? She was a fairy who married a mortal to

‘Oh, that’s not right,’ said the chief. ‘That’s a dirty trick.’ Even the robbers, hard-hearted as they were, were moved to pity.

You often need more than one person in a scene to make it work.

she hadn’t got time to berate herself,

but the first half, with the comedy of the three little men, has a quite different tone.

“That’s the duty of the old,” said the Librarian, “to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.”