"There's often a clue there if you look more close. What's that little old thing on top of it?"
She screwed upasking it, Lyra?"
"I'm a thinking-" she stopped, surprised to find that she'd actually been asking a question without realizing it. "I just put three pictures together because...! was thinking about Mr. de Ruyter, see....And I put together the serpent and the crucible and the beehive, to ask her eyes and peered."That's a skull!""So what d'you think that might mean?""Death...Is that death?""That's right. So in the hourglass range of meanings you get death. In fact, after time, which is the first one, death is the second one.""D'you know what I noticed, Farder Coram? The needle stops there on the second go-round! On the first round it kind of twitches, and on the second it stops. Is that saying it's the second meaning, then?""Probably. What are you
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