AtD - well, whadda ya know ...

[Chris Broderick]

John Dee.  Where can I find out more about him?  I've
recently read a couple of novels by John Crowley,
including his Pale Fire-esque novel Lord Byron's
Novel: The Evening Land, which is a lovely piece of
work.  He wrote a novel called Aegypt, that supposedly
has something to do with John Dee.  Has anyone read
it?

I've always attributed the "White Visitation" scenes
to be connected to the ideas of Helene Blavatsky, more
out of the fact that I know slightly more about her
than I do Crowley, which is to say, almost nothing as
opposed to nothing.  Of course, I'd imagine she was
(if only tangentially) an influence on Mr. Primary
Influence of Led Zeppelin himself.  Though I dunno.

-Chris

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> Well, here's my weird theory. In "Goldbug
> Variations", Richard Powers manages to include Glenn
> Gould as part of the story without even mentioning
> his name. The prescence/abscence of Alstaire Crowley
> in "Gravity's Rainbow" may be more chimerical than
> Gould's in "Goldbug Variations, but so many of the
> specifics in the "White Visitation" point in that
> direction, that you have to factor in one of the
> biggest occult prescences active during WWII, making
> the failure to mention him in "GR" somewhat
> sinister. Somehow (thanks in large part to the
> "Courier's Tragedy") John Dee occcupies a similar
> abscence in "The Crying of Lot 49". At least in my
> mind. 
> 


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