{"id":762,"date":"2009-06-11T19:44:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/i-must-create-a-system\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T02:17:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T21:17:35","slug":"i-must-create-a-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/i-must-create-a-system\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I must create a System&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philip-pullman.com\/pages\/content\/index.asp?PageID=110\">Philip Pullman&#8217;s official site<\/a> now includes the text of a lecture the author gave to the Blake Society in October 2005 at St James&#8217;s Church, Piccadilly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The word narrative suggests another meaning that system might have, and that&#8217;s mythology, with a set of stories about characters like Yahweh, or Zeus, or the giant Albion, or Jesus Christ.  Mythologies deal with the creation of things, and the appearance of human beings in a world we did not create. I&#8217;m not aware of any mythology that says the universe was created by human beings; we always turn up afterwards, and the relation we have with the place we find ourselves in is part of what gives the system its emotional tone: determines whether it&#8217;s tragic, or optimistic, or dramatic, or whatever. Sometimes we are the rebellious children of the great creator; sometimes we are the children made by a sub-creator who rebelled against the first creator, like the creatures of Prometheus; but our presence here is accounted for in the story. We are part of everything that&#8217;s going on; even if we don&#8217;t fully understand it, we have the sense of coherence somewhere.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full text <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philip-pullman.com\/assets_cm\/files\/PDF\/i_must_create_a_system.pdf\">here<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman&#8217;s official site now includes the text of a lecture the author gave to the Blake Society in October 2005 at St James&#8217;s Church, Piccadilly. &#8220;The word narrative suggests another meaning that system might have, and that&#8217;s mythology, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/i-must-create-a-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pullmans-gospels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}