(urth) Van Vogt. (Was: Re: I Claudius)
Jesper Svedberg
jsvedberg at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 15:38:59 PDT 2006
Andy Robertson skrev:
> It certainly is worth looking at. ((My pronouncements have been
> unjustifiably gnomic and absolute. You must excuse me - I'm terribly
> busy.)) But I think the difference lies in the fact that the "godhood" in
> TBOTNS is rooted in Judaeo-Christian ideas of submission to an omnipotent
> Increate and His judgement. This idea of God is not an Indo-European
> concept at all and is really quite different from the godhood in PTATH or
> elsewhere in VV.
Well, right. I'm just suggesting that Wolfe might be reworking a Van
Vogtian (or similar) story of dawning Godhood in a Judaeo-Christian
context. I other words: he's asking the question "What would the type of
hero found in a Campbellian monomyth or a story by Van Vogt be like if
the actual metaphysics of the world were based on christianity?"
// Jesper
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