TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 10月22日 01時05分

When Philip Pullman was 10 years old, he witnessed a vision that has stayed with him ever since. It was 1956, and he was living in South Australia, where his stepfather was a pilot with Britain's Royal Air Force. The River Murray floods that year had left huge parts of the region underwater, and he remembers being driven out to see it. "It was astonishing," the 70-year-old British author says now. "It was an immense mass, as wide as the sea, of gray water whipped up by a cold wind. The power of it. It was an impression that never left me." It’s this memory that inspired the flood at the center of 'La Belle Sauvage,' the first volume of the Book of Dust, Pullman's new trilogy set in the universe of his fantasy series His Dark Materials. Released between 1995 and 2000, the three novels that launched the franchise entered the canon of young-adult fiction. He says the driving force behind his choice of genre is less a desire to build new worlds than a simple reluctance to explore this one. "It’s because I’m a lazy bastard," he jokes. "Too idle to get up off my backside and do any research in the real world." Pullman is similarly humble when asked what he wants the reader to take away from this new book, what that great flood inspired by a childhood vision really means. "The meaning of the book is never just what the author thinks it is. It's a great mistake to rely on the author to tell you," he says. "We don’t know. The meaning is only what emerges when the book and the reader meet." Read the full story on TIME.com. Photograph by Lewis Khan (@lewis.khan) for TIME

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