Alchemical imagery
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Nov 1999
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1916
Isn't the term "azoth" for the element mercury alchemical in origin?
I would guess that Wolfe's use of alchemy is on a par with his use of Kabbalah: a nice system to plunder for vocabulary and images, but not something he actually believes in (as I think he told Jim Jordan).
-- Dan Rabin
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