Gnostic Myth-Making...?

[Andreis Passarinho]

I love everything I read about K Dick, and I love some of the movie
adaptations, but I never managed to end one of his books (his style
irritates me, at times).

Would you guys recommend any specific book for soemone who is not crazy
about his style? (if that makes sense) I was thinking about Ubik


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is saturated with gnosticism and tarot
>>> imagery.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Antonin Scriabin <
>>> kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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