Friday 20 February 2009

Jean-Honore Fragonard l'aurore

Jean-Honore Fragonard l'auroreJean-Honore Fragonard Cephale et ProcrisEdgar Degas Dancer
back into Farder Coram's kit bag, and put the one with the spy-fly in it together with the alethiometer in the pouch at her waist. She was glad when they were moving again.

The leaders had agreed with Lee Scoresby that when they reached the next stopping place, they would inflate his ."
"I was just wondering, if lorek Bymison wanted to go back..." "He'd be killed. lorek's in exile. As soon as he set foot there, they'd tear him to pieces."
"How do you inflate your balloon, Mr. Scoresby?" "Two ways. I can balloon and he would spy from the air. Naturally Lyra was eager to fly with him, and naturally it was forbidden; but she rode with him on the way there and pestered him with questions. "Mr. Scoresby, how would you fly to Svalbard?" "You'd need a dirigible with a gas engine, something like a zeppelin, or else a good south wind. But hell, I wouldn't dare. Have you ever seen it? The bleakest barest most inhospitable godforsaken dead end of nowheremake hydrogen

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