Eeeeeeee! :D
I MET PHILIP PULLMAN! I LOVE HIM EVEN MORE NOW!
I LOVE OXFORD!
OMG it was the best thing ever, he was lovely and answered to all sort of things and it was only about 20 people in a cosy sitting room, so it was very personal and unofficial it wasn't a prepared speech or anything like which made it much better.
It was also the most embarrassing night in my life, first of all I got to Exeter College a bit early and was talking about him with my friend, who came to show me the way but decided to stay. I didn't know what Philip Pullman looks like, and HE WAS RIGHT THERE reading the notice board. I didn't know, so Sam told me it's him and I sort of freaked and ran away and squeed in a way that was really embarrassing considering the other people's reactions. (Are you here for the talk? Yes, I am the speaker. Oh, you must be Mr Pullman, nice to meet you.)I didn't expect to react like that! It just came out of nowhere, and he was right there!
Then in the middle of one of his answers my phone rang and it took me like an hour to find it and switch it off and then at the end of the night I knocked over someone's glass of wine. Not my fault as it was on the floor, but still.
I didn't ask any questions but other people asked the things I wanted to know so it was all good. He told us how he thinks Blair is a bit dodgy and a bullshitter, he told us how he met Tolkien at a dinner in Exeter college and how terrifying it was, he told us that the film finally has a script and they will soon start casting and parts will be filmed in Oxford, he told us he is writing The Book of Dust which is set four years in the future in Lyra's world, he showed us a stabbed squirrel...
I didn't take Northern Lights with me to get it signed, which I regret because a lot of people did but seeing was amazing.
loneraven, jacinthsong did you love it? I can't belive he said he didn't like God! Sorry I left so abruptly (after cleaning the wine) I didn't even ask you what you thought! :DDD
I LOVE OXFORD!
OMG it was the best thing ever, he was lovely and answered to all sort of things and it was only about 20 people in a cosy sitting room, so it was very personal and unofficial it wasn't a prepared speech or anything like which made it much better.
It was also the most embarrassing night in my life, first of all I got to Exeter College a bit early and was talking about him with my friend, who came to show me the way but decided to stay. I didn't know what Philip Pullman looks like, and HE WAS RIGHT THERE reading the notice board. I didn't know, so Sam told me it's him and I sort of freaked and ran away and squeed in a way that was really embarrassing considering the other people's reactions. (Are you here for the talk? Yes, I am the speaker. Oh, you must be Mr Pullman, nice to meet you.)I didn't expect to react like that! It just came out of nowhere, and he was right there!
Then in the middle of one of his answers my phone rang and it took me like an hour to find it and switch it off and then at the end of the night I knocked over someone's glass of wine. Not my fault as it was on the floor, but still.
I didn't ask any questions but other people asked the things I wanted to know so it was all good. He told us how he thinks Blair is a bit dodgy and a bullshitter, he told us how he met Tolkien at a dinner in Exeter college and how terrifying it was, he told us that the film finally has a script and they will soon start casting and parts will be filmed in Oxford, he told us he is writing The Book of Dust which is set four years in the future in Lyra's world, he showed us a stabbed squirrel...
I didn't take Northern Lights with me to get it signed, which I regret because a lot of people did but seeing was amazing.
loneraven, jacinthsong did you love it? I can't belive he said he didn't like God! Sorry I left so abruptly (after cleaning the wine) I didn't even ask you what you thought! :DDD