On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:32:35 -0600, Jeremy Henty
 blethered:

>On 2008-01-08, Rexx Magnus  wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:02:00 GMT, Jeremy Henty wrote:
>>> And what of  the minority who's daemon is the  same gender as them?
>>> It's mentioned once and that's all.
>>
>> Probably gay - at least that's what I assumed.
>
>I suspected that  too.  I just think that it's  wierd that such people
>are mentioned exactly once and nothing else is said about them.  We're
>not even  given a  name or nickname  for them,  which is odd  when you
>think how keen Pullman is to show off invented nouns for other things.
>It reads  like an idea  that seemed good  at the time, didn't  come to
>anything and was left in out of laziness or oversight.

Either that or in a world with visible daemons it's so unremarkable
that it hasn't even attracted a nickname. OK, he does say there's not
a lot of people with same-sex daemons, but then there's nothing about
an incidental character being gay that would have advanced the story,
really. Might have been interesting if one of the Magisterium had a
same-sex daemon, and more so if they'd concealed that fact... <eg>


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