Governments aren't singular entities, either. The president gets elected every four years, but he may not even know about all the military secrets happening in secret subsections of agencies that are nominally under his control.
I suppose Charles Wallace could make something like that bomb, but Lyra's universe can't be in the same sheaf with the Kairos/Chronos universe. The presence of a benign God is far too important an underpinning for L'Engle's work to permit a full universe cross with the worldsheaf where Will Parry killed the impostor Authority.
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Date: 2007-02-02 07:57 pm (UTC)I suppose Charles Wallace could make something like that bomb, but Lyra's universe can't be in the same sheaf with the Kairos/Chronos universe. The presence of a benign God is far too important an underpinning for L'Engle's work to permit a full universe cross with the worldsheaf where Will Parry killed the impostor Authority.