# Harold Bloom's tastes *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Feb 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *11 Feb 2002, 21:58* > Marc Aramini wrote: > If Bloom praises Crowley > and David Lindsay so highly, I can only imagine he would not dismiss Wolfe > out > of hand if he read his work (as he dismisses, say, Dorris Lessing). Alga, > didn't you have some vague connection with Bloom at one time? (sorry if I > misremembered that). Foist Wolfe on him. My strong impression is that Bloom enjoys Lindsay and Crowley so very much because their work (well . . . A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS, let us say, since I've never seen Bloom mention any other Lindsay but I would bet that he has read at least a few others, if not all of them) is so unambiguously Gnostic. As such, he would probably not like Gene Wolfe's fiction, even ambiguously semi-Gnostic works such as TBOTNS. =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley http://www.siriusfiction.com/ ---