# Gnostic Wolfe - and Lindsay *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 28 Oct 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. --- ### Andy Robertson *28 Oct 2002, 17:20* The most tremendous modern fictional work based on Gnosticism is A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS - and I *don't* think Wolfe derived much from this incredibly savage and *deeply* pessimistic work. However, it is richly worth a look in itself, and is online somewhere IIRC hartshorn ----- Original Message ----- > From: "tom" > To: > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 4:17 PM > Subject: Re: (urth) Gnostic Wolfe vs CE Wolfe > > James Wynn writes: >> Tom said: >> Gnostics (as far as we know) weren't all that pessimistic, really. >> Compared to doctrines like Sheol and predestination, Gnostics >> were positively euphoric. --- ### matthew.malthouse *29 Oct 2002, 10:11 · follows Andy Robertson* > On 28/10/2002 17:20:03 Andy Robertson wrote: > The most tremendous modern fictional work based on Gnosticism is A VOYAGE > TO > ARCTURUS - and I *don't* think Wolfe derived much from this incredibly > savage and *deeply* pessimistic work. > > However, it is richly worth a look in itself, and is online somewhere > IIRC http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1329 Matthew ---