Philip Pullman - Open University 40th Anniversary Lecture (1/6)

[@sattarabus]

I can well imagine the mighty heft of the pen with which he writes. I would love to carry it on my shoulder as an admiring porter. The audience asked some of the most significant questions and Philip answered them with beguiling candour and bluntness. The cognitive psychologist in the audience, the professor smelling of the lamp, the incorrigible escapist, and the habitual compulsive reader...must all have benefited from the answers Philip gave them off the top of his head. Azar Nafisi cannot visualize a greater prize for her pathbreaking novel than the encomium from Philip Pullman.

[@wikedwhich1]

I love this talk...Thank you...such a homage to illustraters that I do miss

[@TheDharr]

Great stuff. Love Philip.

[@Free7ZipDownload]

Fantastic open university!

[@manthasagittarius1]

For every one that responds to the pictures with a feeling of having her imagination encroached upon, there is another who falls deep into the visual world and lives the story cross-modally between language and image. I think the illustrations usually add immensely, and I have moreover always decided for myself whether the artist "got it" or not, so I didn't lose any independence about what the "borderland" looked like, and if there were any mismatches went to the story itself and stayed there.

[@andrewkawam2603]

58:40 Me Too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gilbertwalker3222]

Strange that Blake isn’t mentioned once in the lecture despite his documented love for him.

[@Zenocrate]

I completely agree to the lady tactfully questioning the use of illustrations. To me, too, they often seem to curtail and not to liberate imagination. She is right to posit a personal borderland in one's own pictures.

[@ofthebloodywaters]

I thought for sure the guy doing the intro was attempting a Jay Leno impression.

[@revertido4117]

Hello

[@gazetronix]

That is pretty flawed logic! :-P