From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Gnostic Wolfe - and Lindsay
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:20:03 -0000

The most tremendous modern fictional work based on Gnosticism is A VOYAGE TO
ARCTURUS -  and I *don't* think Wolfe derived much from this incredibly
savage and *deeply* pessimistic  work.

However, it is richly worth a look in itself, and is online somewhere IIRC


    hartshorn


----- Original Message -----
From: "tom" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: (urth) Gnostic Wolfe vs CE Wolfe


>
> James Wynn writes:
>
> > Tom said:
> > Gnostics (as far as we know) weren't all that pessimistic, really.
> > Compared to doctrines like Sheol and predestination, Gnostics
> > were positively euphoric.



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