(urth) Crowley and mystery

[Son of Witz]

anyone read Edward Whittemore's Sinai Tapestry.
that's a strange sort of puzzle.  Odd book. One of those ones where I didn't like it until about a month later, when, not having thought about it since closing the pages, the symbols jumped out and started making sense.
very curious work.  I'm not sure if it's scifi or not.  The cover would lead you to believe it, and many elements.  I suppose New Sun fans might find a lot worth pondering. Jerusalem, repeating Anchors in history, time paradoxes. I just found out it's the first of the Jerusalem Quartet. I suppose I should read the others.  very strange.  the blurb on the cover compared it to LOTR, which left me scratching my head big time.
~witz

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Zvi Gilbert [mailto:zvi at vex.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 02:38 PM
>To: urth at lists.urth.net
>Subject: (urth) Crowley and mystery
>
>> > It's just probably not the sort of stuff that inspires me to get online
>> > and try to hash out what the hell is going on with some other readers.
>> For that, I would recommend John Crowley, especially _Engine Summer_ and
>> _Little, Big_.
>
>I don't find either of those books particularly confusing. Wonderful, 
>brilliant, and exquisite, yes; but they're not New Sun-like. I suspect a 
>discussion of it for me would devolve into quoting favorite lines and 
>swooning.
>
>However, Crowley's long and complex four novel series Aegypt (The 
>Solitudes, Love & Sleep, Daemonomania, Endless Things) is something that I 
>would love to hash over with interested parties. As many of its 
>characters and situations are drawn from history (John Dee, Giordano 
>Bruno, and so forth), I would just like some particularly erudite person 
>to lecture at me about the source material -- I suspect I would learn a 
>lot that way.
>
>--Zvi
>
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