(urth) Gnosticism in BotNS‏

John Watkins john.watkins04 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 21:31:42 PDT 2009


Remember, it's Wolfe's future vocabulary.  "Gnostic" here, at least to
Severian, is probably synonymous with "occult"--the symbols are mysterious,
understood or intelligible only to an initiated few.

Of course, *Wolfe *probably wants to evoke Gnosticism even though Severian
has no such thought.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which makes one wonder where Severian learned a word like "gnostic,"
> since his world seems to be rather unitary in terms of religious
> diversity.
>
> 2009/4/8 b sharp <bsharporflat at hotmail.com>:
> >
> > On a more prosaic note I'll point out that in Severian's boyhood visit
> > to the Witches Tower he sees, "Gnostic designs in white, green
> > and purple had been chalked on the walls.."
> >
> > perhaps more on that later.
> >
> >
> > -bsharp
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