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Peter T. Cash15 Oct 1998, 23:22originalas archived
Mani and Thor
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alga said:
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But yes, with reservations about Erebus, Abaia & co., who are echoing the more dualist parts of Revelation. I said that Dr. Talos's play is Manichaean. Which it certainly is--the gothic tradition to which Baldanders, Talos and all horror novelists belong is necessarily dualistic.
"Privatio boni" won't do for Gothic novels? Necessarily dualistic? Umm...well you are a micro-organism of definite opinions, so I'll just gently suggest that I'm not convinced. When you say that the play is "Manichaean", I take it that you mean it implies a dualistic cosmology or theology. I suppose that it does; but then it implies lots of things. Indeed, the play struck me as a somewhat tacky, improvised kitchen-sink composite of just about every apocalyptic-second creation myth that I'd ever heard. (I'm surprised the Aesir don't put in an appearance.) I suppose this is in keeping with a play-within-a-novel that is a "grand sword 'n sorcery revision of the New Testament". I really like that assessment, by the way. Sgt. Rock
Alex David Groce16 Oct 1998, 12:48originalas archived
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Necessarily seems a bit much to me, as well. Maybe necessarily somewhat suggestive of dualism... Come to think of it, Lovecraft isn't dualistic--there's only a dark side...
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On Oct 15, 11:22pm, Peter T. Cash wrote: Subject: (urth) Mani and Thor alga said:
But yes, with reservations about Erebus, Abaia & co., who are echoing the more dualist parts of Revelation. I said that Dr. Talos's play is Manichaean. Which it certainly is--the gothic tradition to which Baldanders, Talos and all horror novelists belong is necessarily dualistic.
"Privatio boni" won't do for Gothic novels? Necessarily dualistic? Umm...well you are a micro-organism of definite opinions, so I'll just gently suggest that I'm not convinced. When you say that the play is "Manichaean", I take it that you mean it implies a dualistic cosmology or theology. I suppose that it does; but then it implies lots of things. Indeed, the play struck me as a somewhat tacky, improvised kitchen-sink composite of just about every apocalyptic-second creation myth that I'd ever heard. (I'm surprised the Aesir don't put in an appearance.) I suppose this is in keeping with a play-within-a-novel that is a "grand sword 'n sorcery revision of the New Testament". I really like that assessment, by the way. Sgt. Rock

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