AtD, naming

[David Morris]

I agree that The Gnostic Pynchon is very good, but used books via
Amazon are too expensive.  Try Abebooks:

http://www.abebooks.com/

I think the reason that Gnosticism (not gnosis) is so important to
Pynchon is its concept of the world being the creation of a flawed
(maybe even evil) god, the creator as the ultimate evil conspirator.
This is a much more complex construct than "regular" Christianity with
its God/Satan division.  With Gnosticism God IS the Devil.

David Morris

2008/5/9 Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>:
> The Gnostic Pynchon is still the most mind-opening parsing of Pynchon's fiction I've ever read... You can find it used on Amazon and it's worth the prices... Whatever they may be.
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> It's an amazing read, and not all that long either.
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> It will point you to a more important thinker of gnostic-thought (or anti-gnostic thought): Eric Voegelin... And it's CLEAR Pynchon read and understand Voegelin... Arguable that he agrees with Voegelin too, although Pynchon would never be so explicit...
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> His silence on Voegelin (across al his works) is similar to the absence of Einstein in ATD.