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TBOD: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby AncientOfDays » Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:38 pm

Tool 1: The Alethiometer. Tool 2: The Subtle Knife. Tool 3: The Amber Spyglass. Tool 4: The Book of Dust?

Though what sort of powers the Book would have, I don't know. Maybe it is made of Dust, or maybe it is a source of Dust?
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby kincuri » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:42 am

Maybe not so much a tool, as a source of information.

I can see Lyra discovering it through her studies of the Alethiometer
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby Luca » Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:14 pm

Join intrepid Arctic-explorer Lyra Belaqua on her journey through life at St Sophia's, where The Book Of Dust is balanced firmly on top of our heroine's head as she learns to walk like a lady.
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby LauraHDM » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:56 pm

Join intrepid Arctic-explorer Lyra Belaqua on her journey through life at St Sophia's, where The Book Of Dust is balanced firmly on top of our heroine's head as she learns to walk like a lady.
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But yeah, TBoD would indeed make sense as the fourth tool. Maybe Lyra herself will write it? Considering it was predicted in TGC that Lyra would someday know more about Dust than anyone else in the world, she very well could, I think.. :)
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby Roll_with_it » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:57 pm

Good idea, I had always thought the title would refer to the actual physical book. If it was an actual item though, it would significantly increase the chances of a full Lyra story.
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby reflective » Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:41 pm

a fourth tool?
no i dont think there will be a another "tool"
although the book of dust is aparently going to be a big book pullman himself said that there would be no more books in the trilagy after tas, if there were going to be another "tool" i think it would have been introduced in once upon a time in the north, still good thought
but please dont call it a "tool" there more important than tools,
if the real lyra heard that you wouldnt have a nose now :D :lickout: :lol:
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby AncientOfDays » Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:36 am

http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org/srafope ... hree_Tools

I think "Three Tools" is an overall term.
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby Philharmonic » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:42 am

There we go. I think that if the book was the fourth 'tool' then it would be on there.

I can't see a book having any relation to Dust except talking about it-lets face it, it can't 'see', it can't be powered by or help get rid of Dust.
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby Dragon of Heaven » Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:21 pm

The thing that always bugged me about that The Amber Spyglass being the name of the third book is that it has little relevance to the overall plot of the trilogy, nowhere near the same scale as the golden compass or subtle knife. Its just some minor thing at the end of the third book.
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby reflective » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:22 pm

how about the book of dust is what helps lyra learn how to read the aleathiometre again?
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby waitingForDust » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:15 am

I read this thread with interest, hoping there might be some news of 'The Book of Dust' which seems long overdue now.
However, I just had to add my comments:
Dust = dark matter and is (stated to be by Mary Malone) concious, so I suppose it could be manipulated as a tool in the same way the police/military were interested in the book. However, it would appear Lyra's degree course is laid out in 'Once upon a time in the north' and is not Physics.
It was said that the alethiometer was 'powered' by dust, so I suppose a book about dust might help Lyra to read it again, although again in OUATITN she mentions that she is way ahead of her teacher in her alethiometer studies.
As to the amber spyglass having little relevance to the overall plot, well it enabled Mary to be accepted fully by the mulefa so I suppose that was all part of the plot to keep her there so that she could become the serpent. It also enabled her to see Lyra's potential executioner coming to the village from far off, and of course verify that the world had been put to rights after Will and Lyra's 'garden of eden' encounter.
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby reflective » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:57 pm

i'v had new thoughts and i dont thing it will be.
dust is what the 3 "tools"(....yes im still anoyed about that) were controlled by, or were controlled by in some way.
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby Yrael » Wed Nov 26, 2008 11:14 pm

What if the book of dust was the book that the aleathiometrist, on the boat where they torture the witch, had?





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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby Hymuki&Nimolu » Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:50 am

Neither. It is a companion novel.
It will have lots of Stories, possibly things such as how farder coram and serfina pekkela met and the ending to the story about "Lyra and the Birds" started in "Lyra's Oxford"
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Re: Could the Book of Dust be the Fourth Tool?

Postby tyche » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:10 am

What if the book of dust was the book that the aleathiometrist, on the boat where they torture the witch, had?





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That book was just a book which detailed the meanings of the symbols of the Alethiometer. Presumably that means it was written before Dust (which seems to be a pretty recent phenomenon) was discovered.

Anyway I like the idea of the book of Dust being a tool but I don’t think that’s what Pullman will do. I know it’s a trend but “Lyra’s Oxford” wasn’t a tool in anyway. And Dust, to me, always seemed like something that had just been discovered as well as being top secret so I doubt anyone in Lyra’s world would have written about it.
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