The Golden Monkey

[lupinesque]

Samwise thought:

> He does speak once in The Amber Spyglass to Mrs. Coulter...but I 
> don't remember where off the top of my head.

One possibility came to my mind, but it turns out he doesn't 
speak there either.  It's the very end of chapter 28--she speaks to 
him and he just looks at her and they each know what the other is 
thinking (of course).  No words from him.  The more I think about 
it, the more I think there never are.

We do hear daemons besides Pan speak now and then:  Stelmaria (Lord 
Asriel's), a bird (a goose?) who is a witch's (Serafina?), Hester (Lee 
Scoresby's), Ama's.  We don't hear much from them, it's true, but 
then, they get relatively little page time; in contrast, the golden 
monkey is written of so often that his silence is really noticeable, 
and creepy.

Amy Z
who thinks it just might be time to reread HDM