Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:41:07 -0600
Subject: Re: (urth) Gnostic Wolfe
From: Adam Stephanides 

on 11/1/02 10:24 AM, James Wynn at crushtv@HotPOP.com wrote:

> Well, we do know that in the Long Sun, the Outsider is the acknowledged
> creator of humans (from mud) in the Chrasmological Writings (I think this is
> in LS 2).

I'd forgotten this; which means that the analogy between Pas and the
Demiurge, and the case for a gnostic influence on the Long Sun books, are
even weaker than I thought.  I see no reason not to regard the "cosmology"
of the Long Sun as a product of Wolfe's views on the existence of pagan
"gods" combined with the generation-starship trope, with any resemblance to
Gnosticism being accidental.

--Adam


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