Gnostic Myth-Making...?

[Antonin Scriabin]

Ah, and how could I forget the works of Charles Williams?


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> There is also *Zanoni *by Bulwer-Lytton, and on the topic of tarot, *Last
> Call *by Tim Powers.
>
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> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is saturated with gnosticism and tarot
>> imagery.
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>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Antonin Scriabin <
>> kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I'm actually reading *Endless Things *at the moment.  The *Aegypt *cycle
>>> is quite good, but not as good as *Little, Big*. My personal favorite
>>> volume was *Love & Sleep. *I too would be interested in more "gnostic"
>>> fiction, or anything saturated with esoteric elements like this.  *Foucault's
>>> Pendulum *comes to mind, and though not fiction, Robert Graves' *The
>>> White Goddess *is mentioned by Crowley in an interview as having a
>>> large influence on his writing of the *Aegypt *cycle.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
>>> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>>>> On 23.05.2013 05:51, Lemuel Underwing wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   So if Miss Hume is convincing in her argument that one of Pynchon's
>>>> main stabilizing functions is his Myth-Making (and I think she is), and
>>>> furthermore that it is a type of Gnostic Myth with a Twist, who are other
>>>> Gnostic Myth-Makers if there are any?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Philip K. Dick (*VALIS*, *The Divine Invasion*, *The Three Stigmata of
>>>> Palmer Eldritch*), Nicholas Roeg (*The Man Who Fell to Earth*) and
>>>> Hermann Hesse (*Demian*) come to my mind first. There are more.
>>>>
>>>> An excellent essay on the issue is "The Modern Relevance of Gnosticism"
>>>> by Richard Smith (pp. 532 - 549 in James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi
>>>> Library in English).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  The most apparent is the awesome John Crowley, whose work I have been
>>>> immersed in for the better part of 2013: *Little, Big* , *The
>>>> Solitudes , and Love & Sleep *namely... tho' it seems he has read *The
>>>> Crying of Lot 49  *I mean *really *read it I don't think he goes much
>>>> beyond it...
>>>> obsessing as I do after anything called Gnostic once who are the other
>>>> authors that may, however one attempts to stretch the term, be called
>>>> Gnostic in their ability to spin new Mythos of the sort Pynchon weaves?
>>>>
>>>>  I haven't tried anything by Saramago...?
>>>>
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