Gnostic Wolfe - and Lindsay
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 28 Oct 2002
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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" <tom at bitterman.net>
> To: <urth at urth.net>
> 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.

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matthew.malthouse — 29 Oct 2002, 10:11
  follows, by subject match 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

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