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this is still the weirdest fucking book i've ever read

>> No.22185551

>>22185535
Read what the Manichaeans believed and it will make sense

>> No.22185772

>>22185535
What makes it so weird

>> No.22186851

>>22185535
core of every fictive practice ends in gnosticism

>> No.22187224

>>22186851
Why though? I noticed after the fact, that I have inserted Gnostic elements in smut I written.

>> No.22187447

>>22187224
might have to do with the natural progression of theurgical creation -- something thats not quite the run-of-the-mill solipsisms, nihilisms, etc ... a creator is admitted and acknowledged in the act of creation, but this is "Not" the "True" "Creator" and a realization is made that whatever created this world is not The Ultimate creator In the Last Instance

>> No.22188312

If this is the weirdest book that you’ve ever read then you seriously need to broaden your horizons my friend. That’s pathetic.

>> No.22188323

i liked it at first but it got a bit tiresome after he met his fifth alien waifu who transformed him in yet another way

>> No.22188396

>>22187447
It’s too weird a concept for people to believe that the universe just always has been.
So they assume intellect, consciousness was the thing that always was, instead of blind and thoughtless matter and energy. It’s just hubris, foolish hubris.

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22188608

Sounds like a pleasant romp. I'll put it on my entirely too long "to read" list.
If you like weird fiction, and haven't already partaken of our lord and master Philip K. Dick, you're in for a wonderful surprise.

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22188623

dorky dorky dorky

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22188748

I hope you guys get the edition with illustrations by Woodring

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22188776

>>22185535
>recommendation by Colin Wilson

>> No.22188827

>>22188748
Where do I buy it? Could only ever find used paperbacks. There a pdf?

>> No.22188833

>>22188827
Buy it from the publisher.

>> No.22188840

>>22188833
Unless Nightspore's vision at the end is rendered in all the searing horror it deserves it wasn't worth a whole benjamin. What I've seen doesn't give me much faith

>> No.22188855

>>22188776
>Colin Wilson
Currently reading his Spider World books. Which is basically like if Mad Max was a Jedi on a world where men are enslaved by psychic spiders. Part of what makes it so entertaining is the knowledge that half of what he is writing he doesn't actually think of as fiction.

>> No.22189791

>>22188608
it's quite similar to a pkd story actually, in the sense of starting with something that seems intelligible but quickly spiralling out of control

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>>22188855
I mean, this guy started out as the darling of English literary critics.
Then he started writing books about space vampires ...