MDMD: What is this junk?

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
 
> I did leave out the "Creation's Dark Engineer (97)" because I still
> don't
> know what to make of it. That there's an "Engineer" behind the
> Creation is
> an idea of the Enlightenment but why is this engineer "Dark" in
> Cherrycoke's
> opinion?

Are there any "Gnosticism" enthusiasts in the room?  And didn't
Zoroaster spake sommat on t'Topick? 
I am way out of my depth in the theological stuff, but the line
reminded me of the doctrine of the "demiurge", a sort of semi-divine
employee of God who did the dirty work of putting the whole works up
and in motion. Pynchon's engineers, in dealing with the matter in hand,
never seem to get it quite right, initiate awful chains of unintended
consequences, and generally serve Powers they do not themselves
understand. Engineer also has roots in "enginer" -- one who designs and
builds the engins of war. Such an Enginer might well be Dark.

Mark

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