lordbelacqua: HIS DARK MATERIALS + tropes ->the powerful artifact“An alethiometer.&rd
lordbelacqua: HIS DARK MATERIALS + tropes -> the powerful artifact“An alethiometer.” There was no point in asking what that meant. It lay heavily in her hands, the crystal face gleaming, the golden body exquisitely machined. It was very like a clock, or a compass, for there were hands pointing to places around the dial, but instead of the hours or the points of the compass there were several little pictures, each of them painted with extraordinary precision, as if on ivory with the finest and slenderest sable brush.NORTHERN LIGHTS, Philip Pullman -- source link