My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to leeds university but he didn't normally send them to oxford or cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards oxford and cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [the history boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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...When all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, lyras oxford and wills would lie over each other again, like transparent images on two sheets of film being moved closer and closer until they mergedalthough they would never truly touch.
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I had passed through the entire british education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading english at oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
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She had asked: what is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: he is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could find food, and show her how to reach oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. A murderer was a worthy companion. She felt as safe with him as she'd done with iorek byrnison the armoured bear.
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...The peculiar air of oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.
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Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isnt enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where thats not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.
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I read zuleika dobson with pleasure. It represents the oxford that the two world wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.
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