SF?

[Craig Clark]

Adam J. Thornton <adam at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes:

> You ever see Catholic Neoplatonism in the guise of an SF epic?  Catholic
> Neoplatonism heavily informed by Borges?  Borgesian Catholic Neoplatonism
> in a very, very, very far future Buenos Aires?

Adam, you have opened my eyes! I've read _The Book_ maybe five or six 
times, but haven't realised until now that yes, Nessus = Buenos 
Aires, and Gyoll = Plata... I did get the Borges reference (the blind 
librarian, of course...) but hadn't realised the implications of the 
rest.... Thank you!



Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"