“Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well.”
So says the ghost of an old woman to nun-turned-astrophysicist Mary Malone in “The Amber Spyglass,” the final tome in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy and one of my favorite novels. The admonition came to mind as I explored an unusual art exhibit at the USC’s Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island, two dozen miles off the Southern California coast.
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