Crowley and mystery

Zvi Gilbert · 17 Dec 2008, 22:38 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: zvi at vex.net (Zvi Gilbert)
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:38:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Crowley and mystery
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1229552775.19541.urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>
Message-ID: <20081217223856.C677FE3EE at shell.vex.net>

> > It's just probably not the sort of stuff that inspires me to get online
> > and try to hash out what the hell is going on with some other readers.
> For that, I would recommend John Crowley, especially _Engine Summer_ and
> _Little, Big_.

I don't find either of those books particularly confusing. Wonderful, 
brilliant, and exquisite, yes; but they're not New Sun-like. I suspect a 
discussion of it for me would devolve into quoting favorite lines and 
swooning.

However, Crowley's long and complex four novel series Aegypt (The 
Solitudes, Love & Sleep, Daemonomania, Endless Things) is something that I 
would love to hash over with interested parties. As many of its 
characters and situations are drawn from history (John Dee, Giordano 
Bruno, and so forth), I would just like some particularly erudite person 
to lecture at me about the source material -- I suspect I would learn a 
lot that way.

--Zvi

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