... alethiometer better than anyone else ; she has the right kind of mind , a Sherlock Holmes sort of unconscious , for this kind of thinking . And when she gets older , she finds it harder and harder to understand the alethiometer ...
... alethiometer , a truth measure that is reminiscent of so many other in- ventions seen in the science fiction genre . Because of its complexity , one may wonder how a twelve - year - old girl can use the alethiometer and do so with ...
... alethiometer and the knife is a little harder to understand , but properly used , the alethiometer actually guides the knife . That's one thing it can do . In an important con- versation , as Lyra and Will are wandering around in Will's ...
... alethiometer without having to think about it. Fallen into experience, Lyra comes to realize that she must learn to reread the alethiometer by cross-referencing the instrument's multivalent symbols with 'the books [...] in Bodley's ...
... alethiometer, also known as the golden compass, which combines the analog hands of a clock with fea- tures of a compass, blending the real with the imagined, the practical and the mystical. The word alethiometer comes from the Greek ...
... alethiometer”— an oracular instrument that provides her with deeper insight and, sometimes, advice about complex situations she faces. “Know what it is you are asking,” Iorek tells the children, “and if you still want it then, I shall ...
... alethiometer's hands around the dial, and as she did, the screen began to flicker. Astonished, she came out of her ... alethiometer. She asked another question: Is this Dust? Is it the same thing making these patterns and moving ...
... alethiometer to respond truthfully to questions having nothing to do with sex ? 3. Lord Asriel says , " Dust is what makes the alethiometer work . ” 27 Lyra's alethiometer is a truth - telling instrument . The device's name comes from ...
... alethiometer , they are by no means transparent : there is no such thing as a fundamentalist reading of the device . So her readings are stories , stories that give her access to truth . As she is first learning to read the device , for ...
... alethiometer is made from brass and crystal , though it shines as if made from gold . When he gives the alethiometer to Lyra , the Master explains that only six alethiome- ters have ever been created , that it tells the truth , and that ...