The Authority: The Cave

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🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Welcome to The Authority, Slate’s deep dive into the world(s) of HBO’s His Dark Materials. Each week, Slate’s scholars of experimental theology Dan Kois and Laura Miller discuss the HBO series and Philip Pullman’s original trilogy. This week, they cover Episode 2 of Season 2, “The Cave,” in which Lyra meets Mary Malone, a theoretical physicist in our world. She, and we, make some major discoveries about Dust. Email: asktheauthority@slate.com Podcast production by Phil Surkis. Dan Kois on Twitter: @dankois Laura Miller on Twitter: @magiciansbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world's changing.
0:02.0	We've all sensed it.
0:05.0	The prophecy is clear.
0:08.0	Our duty is to protect the girl and boy wherever they are.
0:17.8	Something happening in this world.
0:20.3	People are going to be looking for us.
0:28.0	And I'm looking for a girl named Lyra. Welcome to the Authority, S's His Dark Materials podcast.
0:35.0	It's season 2, episode 2, The Cave.
0:39.0	We are Slate's resident scholars of experimental theology.
0:42.0	I'm Dan Koes. I'm a writer at Slate. Slate's resident scholars of experimental theology.
0:42.8	I'm Dan Koes.
0:44.2	I'm a writer at Slate, and my demon is a prairie vole
0:46.8	named Gilda.
0:48.0	And I'm Laura Miller, books and culture columnist at Slate,
0:51.4	and my demon is the sea otter named Saky.
0:54.0	In episode 2 of season 2, Lyra and Will leave Chitagase and head to our world, our Oxford.
1:01.0	That means that they've got to look the part. So that means, hey, no capes,
1:04.9	Lira. Let's listen.
1:06.4	Lira, people are going to be looking for me. Bad people, the police. You must not look different
1:11.3	or you'll draw attention to us.
1:13.0	They'll start us some questions, they'll find this window and everything.
1:17.0	This is a good hiding place.
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