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Iofur Raknison
The novel's tragic poster child for the horrors of intercision. A poor boy from Oxford, Mrs. Coulter draws him in by promising him hot chocolate. He was selected for intercision after being caught experimenting sexually with one of the girls at Bolvanger and some time after the procedure, Lyra comes across him in a small northern village where the villagers speak of him as though he's a ghost or a malevolent spirit. Separated from his dæmon, Ratter, Tony is stiff, barely responsive, and overcome with grief. He clutches a dried fish in the same way that he might clutch Ratter. Tony dies hours after Lyra brings him back to the gyptian rescue mission.
Tony Makarios Quotes in The Golden Compass
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Chapter Twelve
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"Because, Iorek, listen: I got this symbol reader that tells me things, you see, and it's told me that there's something important I got to do over in that village, and Lord Faa won't let me go there. He just wants to get on quick, and I know that's important too. But unless I go and find out what it is, we might not know what the Gobblers are really doing."
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Chapter Thirteen
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Her first impulse was to turn and run, or to be sick. A human being with no dæmon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out: something unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the world of night-ghasts, not the waking world of sense.
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Tony Makarios Quotes in The Golden Compass
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Chapter Twelve
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"Because, Iorek, listen: I got this symbol reader that tells me things, you see, and it's told me that there's something important I got to do over in that village, and Lord Faa won't let me go there. He just wants to get on quick, and I know that's important too. But unless I go and find out what it is, we might not know what the Gobblers are really doing."
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Chapter Thirteen
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Her first impulse was to turn and run, or to be sick. A human being with no dæmon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out: something unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the world of night-ghasts, not the waking world of sense.
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