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	Intercision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Intercision is a process created by Philip Pullman in his His Dark Materials trilogy.
		A method is developed by Marisa Coulter and the Oblation Board to remove the dæmon, and this method is known as Intercision.
		However, both the Church and Lord Asriel discover that Intercision has some side effects that could be used to their advantage.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intercision (390 words)

	Lord Asriel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though in the early part of the trilogy Lord Asriel is styled as Lyra Belacqua's uncle, it is later revealed that he is in fact her father, the child being the product of an illicit union between Asriel and Marisa Coulter, the wife of a prominent politician.
		At the end of Northern Lights, Asriel succeeds in opening a doorway into another world through the process of intercision in which he sacrifices an innocent child (the best friend of his daughter Lyra) and makes his way to an unpopulated Earth.
		Here, he gathers a huge army together at what becomes known as the Adamant Fortress in order to wage war on the Kingdom of Heaven and to replace its tyrannical rule with a new Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Asriel (351 words)

	The Looking Glass - Vol. 7, No. 1 - My Own Invention
		This supposedly beneficent "intercision, which is actually a kind of mutilation, is performed in the mysterious North, the direction in which Lyra travels in search of her lost friend, and also a place where worlds elide when the Aurora Borealis lights the sky.
		Intercision is not a fate, it might be noted, that Mrs.
		Coulter wishes for her own daughter; rather what she hopes for Lyra is that she will become an able assistant (accomplice?) in her mother's important work.
	www.the-looking-glass.net /rabbit/v7i1/mirrorwindows.html (1510 words)

	Printable Version of Childrens Books: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
		It is revealed that these kidnapped children are taken to Bolvangar, a place in the far North, to participate in Dust experiments whereby they are severed from their dæmons through a process called intercision.
		While on their long, hard journey in the far North, Lyra and Pantalaimon are kidnapped by hunters who take them to Bolvangar, the place where all the kidnapped children have been brought.
		At long last, Lyra is happily reunited with Roger, but to her horror, she witnesses intercision, the gruesome Dust experiment that separates child and dæmon.
	www.book-log.com /print/20021127030227309.htm (787 words)

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
		Intercision is like castration, in which a young boy’s testicles are cut off so that he never reaches male maturity.
		Intercision also recalls female circumcision, in which a girl’s clitoris is removed so that she cannot experience the full intensity of sexual pleasure.
		It is performed by the General Oblation Board, which is a branch of the Church in Lyra’s world, and it is intended to prevent the onset of “upsetting emotions” and allow children to grow up without ever feeling passion.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/section1.html (3307 words)

	Washington Post Book Club: The Golden Compass (washingtonpost.com)
		I found the separation ("intercision") episodes especially painful.
		I also found the intercision episodes very painful to read--how the daemons struggle and fight to stay with their humans, how heart-rending (in perhaps even the literal sense) it is for both halves of the unit.
		It's a very dramatic way of describing the loss of a soul, and it's one of Pullman's most powerful indictments of theological hierarchy, that the supposed representatives of God would commit such atrocities on other human beings, especially children.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A7-2004Oct26.html (3077 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman
		In Pullman's world, every living person has a "daemon," an animal familiar that changes shape at will all through the person's childhood, but which settles into one form upon their puberty.
		Intercision — to be separated from one's daemon — is a tragedy too horrible to contemplate; it's as if the very essence of life itself is erased from the unfortunate victim.
		Pullman subtly introduces all of the fantasy elements of his story in such a way that we are drawn into the tale naturally, rather than by having the story put on hold for chapters at a time so that we can be filled in on backstory.
	www.sfreviews.net /goldencompass.html (801 words)

	intercision // michael pinto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	Review of Pullman, the anti-Inkling
		The process is designed to somehow prevent them from accumulating the "dust" (equivalent to original sin) that pertains to puberty and adult sexuality.
		This barbaric procedure, known as "intercision," leaves the victims little more than zombies.
		But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
	www.talkaboutabook.com /group/alt.books.inklings/messages/3661.html (5303 words)

	His Dark Materials \| The Golden Compass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is revealed that these kidnapped children are taken to Bolvangar, a place in the far North, to participate in Dust experiments whereby they are severed from their dæmons through a process called intercision.
		While on their long, hard journey in the far North, Lyra and Pantalaimon are kidnapped by hunters who take them to Bolvangar, the place where all the k
		At long last, Lyra is happily reunited with Roger, but to her horror, she witnesses intercision, the gruesome Dust experiment that separates child and dæmon.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/pullman/goldencompass (798 words)

	Kiddult Fiction - Northern Lights
		Pullman also uses this invention to present the dark side of this universe.
		While having a daemon provides comfort, the threat of 'intercision', having the bond between child and daemon cut, evokes fear and anguish.
		Despite it being an imagined situation and completely alien, Pullman creates such a strong and vivid sense of this relationship that the torment of the separated child is very real.
	www.shef.ac.uk /english/modules/lit210/kiddult/reviews/northernlights.html (613 words)

	GEOG 3421 Outline - Chap 06
		Abstraction = stream capture that results from undercutting of a stream by a more vigorous one.
		Intercision = stream capture as a result of meandering of one stream into the channel of the other.
		Floodplains - are the area or part of a stream's valley that the stream has actually been meandering or braiding over, or that can be inundated by a flood.
	www.tamuk.edu /geo/Jordan/f03/gmorph/co/outln06.htm (1235 words)

	Notebook
		Here I must insist with the mathematicians, in so far as it pertains to us, that the intercision of any triangle, if it is parallel to the base makes a new triangle proportionate to the larger one.
		We should be persuaded that no quantities equidistant to the cross-section can make any alteration in the picture, because they are similar to their proportionates in every equidistant intercision.
		From this it follows that when the quantity with which the outline is constructed is not changed, there will be no alteration of the same outline in the picture.
	www.noteaccess.com /Texts/Alberti/1.htm (4328 words)

	eSharp
		The Authority's forces practise what in the universe of His Dark Materials is the ultimate cruelty: the process known as 'intercision', the severing of the psychic link between a human and his or her companion animal-spirit, known as the 'daemon'.
		The daemon represents the life-force, the part of oneself one leaves behind at death; there is 'no passage to the lands of the dead' for one who still has a daemon (AS, 296).
		Like his namesake, Lord Asriel severs the link between the soul and the body, with no sign of regret or remorse; we are told that Roger was 'crying and pleading, begging, sobbing, and Lord Asriel took no notice except to knock him to the ground'.
	www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk /issue1/mcsporran2.htm (4383 words)

	Extracts from Dr. Goodman’s Evening Conference, Part II, Sec. II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is no question, SEBASTIAN, but that living for ever is very desirable, if a man could hope for such a thing absolutely, and not clogged with conditions.
		As for death itself, that would have no great matter of formidableness - in it, if it be (as I suppose it) a perfect intercision of all sense; much less, if it were (as the men of your persuasion, use to speak) only a dark passage to another life.
		But the mischief is, that upon your hypothesis, a judgment must pass upon a man first, before he can arrive at that other life.
	wesley.nnu.edu /john_wesley/christian_library/vol20/Part%20V.htm (6757 words)

	los angeles forum for architecture and urban design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Michael Pinto is Design Principal at Osborn, a multi-disciplinary design firm, and board member of the LA Forum.
		Prior, Michael worked with RoTo Architects and in his own practice, Intercision.
		His interests lie in the process of engaging community and notions of authorship.
	www.laforum.org /issues/more.php?id=102_0_15_0_C (803 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Comic Books > The Invisibles- It's everywhere!
		The Church is doing experiments which part people from their 'souls' (which in Pullman's world take physical form) in order to save them from sin.
		This process of 'intercision' has surgical overtones, and leaves the patient zombie-like and controllable.
		It recalls strongly the atrocities of harmony house.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/15510 (2752 words)

	By Randi Condrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Coulter offered to take the girl to the Arctic North as an assistant in her next expedition.
		To Lyra’s horror, however, she found that this expedition is part of a treacherous experiment called intercision, which separated children from their dæmons.
		In the course of the story, Lyra acquired and learned to read an alethiometer, which alwaystold the truth about any situation.
	www.lewiston.k12.id.us /bengalspurr/nov-22/pullman.htm (413 words)

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: Analysis of Major Characters
		Coulter is associated with the Church, where she heads up the General Oblation Board, the organization that kidnaps children in order to perform dastardly experiments on them.
		She rescues Lyra from Intercision at Bolvanger, she looks after Lyra in the cave in the Himalayas, and she fights desperately with Father MacPhail to make sure that his bomb doesn’t kill Lyra.
		In the end, she gives her own life to drag Metatron into the abyss so that Lyra can accomplish her goal.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/canalysis.html (954 words)

	Books in Review: The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He was clutching a piece of fish to him as Lyra was clutching Pantalaimon, with her left hand, hard, against her heart; but that was all he had, a piece of dried fish; because he had no daemon at all.
		That was intercision, and this was a severed child.
		Her first impulse was to turn and run, or to be sick.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0105/reviews/moloney.html (2414 words)

	Culture Watch - Exploring the message behind the media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These are creatures which live with each character, representing, it would appear, their personality, sexuality and emotions.
		Lord Asriel has learned the secret of crossing the bridge between worlds but can only generate the power necessary to do this through a cruel process on children called intercision - separation from one's daemon.
		In Volume 1 (Northern Lights), Lyra takes possession of the first of two tools that will help in their battle, an alethiometer.
	www.damaris.org /content/content.php?type=1&id=142 (695 words)

	»»Reviews for Pullman, Philip«« (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It seems simply right that people have a part of themselves that appears separate and in animal form(called a daemon), and simply right that children's daemons can change form and adult daemons can't.
		As another reviewer remarked, even though you've never encountered the concept of "intercision" before reading these books, the mere thought of it is frightening and revolting.
		And it was fascinating to find some fantasy books that actually address real issues of religion.
	www.booksunderreview.com /Arts/Literature/Authors/P/Pullman,_Philip (4055 words)

	Architects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	www.topiasearch.com /Regional/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/California/Localities/L/LosAngeles/BusinessandEconomy/ConstructionandMaintenance/Architects (348 words)

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: Plot Overview
		The Tartars steal Lyra and bring her to Bolvanger, where the Gobblers keep the children they have kidnapped.
		Here, Lyra finds Roger and also discovers the sinister secret of the Gobblers: they cut daemons and children apart in a process known as intercision.
		Coulter is in charge of the activities at Bolvanger.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/summary.html (2983 words)

	The Republic of Heaven :: View topic - Any of you listened to HDM on CD or tape? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I listen to them at night as I am falling asleep.
		They are so good that I never fall asleep, and I am seen the next day, with bags under my eyes, muttering about the cruelty of intercision.
		Aye, I know several people who do that, myself included.
	www.bridgetothestars.net /forum/viewtopic.php?p=269640 (1501 words)

	Treasury of David Bible Commentary by Charles H. Spurgeon
		Here therefore (as St. Gregory the divine adviseth us), let us ease our heaviest loads of sufferings, and sweeten our bitterest cups of sorrows with the continual meditation and constant expectation of the fulness of joy in the presence of God, and of the pleasure at his right hand for evermore.
		"In thy presence, IS," etc., there it is, not there it was, nor there it may be, nor there it will be, but there it is, there it is without cessation or intercision, there it always hath been, and is, and must be.
		It is an assertion aeternae veritatis, that is always true, it may at any time be said that there it is.
	www.ewordtoday.com /comments/psalm/spurgeon/psalm16.htm (12310 words)

	The Golden Compass
		On the way Lyra encounters and helps to free Iorek Byrnison, a sentient armored bear, who becomes her most powerful defender.
		Lyra finds the missing children in a scientific experimental station, where they are being subjected to the hideous operation of intercision, which separates them from their d‘mons.
		The reasons for this butchery are only part of the extremely complex plot, in which the unknowing Lyra is deeply involved.
	www.sonoma.edu /clubs/azo/PPullman.htm (9585 words)

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	From `Capping' to Intercision: Metaphors/Metonyms of Mind Control in the Young Adult Fiction of John Christopher and ...
		From `Capping' to Intercision: Metaphors/Metonyms of Mind Control in the Young Adult Fiction of John Christopher and Philip Pullman -- Walsh 12 (3): 233 -- Language and Literature
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