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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i started reading that book once because harold bloom once called it the best novel ever or something
it’s supposed to be a great gnostic treatise or something
i got tired of the multiple eyes and murders and abandoned it 2/3 of the way
harold bloom was much more enamored of gnosticism than i’ll ever be and probably understood the referent of all that crazy imagery
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I would not have got it at age 23. I have read a lot of gnostic writings and books about gnosis and the various states of being that the Voyage to Arcturus is actually talking about.