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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Tatman, Robert wrote:
>Yes, of course...I had forgotten "the Head" in *That Hideous Strength*. I
>first read the Perelandra Trilogy in seventh grade, and came back to it only
>a couple of years ago. June, you're absolutely right about Lewis's
>prescience. The
perhaps Lewis's best writing aside
from *The Screwtape Letters*.
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On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Excelent point June, a story I'm familiar with. Lewis had all kinds of neat
>stuff in that book, a resurrected Merlin, a new Pendragon descendant of
>Arthur, the talking head which ran the show in the "NWO" collective, Templar
>like
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In a message dated 12/11/99 5:19:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> For another relatively modern spin on the 'talking head' and its
> use by evil forces, read "That Hideous Strength", the third book
> in C. S. Lewis' "Perelandra" trilogy...
>
> I reread
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tatman, Robert wrote:
>It's related to Baphomet, and also to the talking brass head that Roger
>Bacon is supposed to have had. BTW, for an excellent historical fantasy
>based on the Gerbert story, see Judith Tarr's *Ars Magica*--a well-written,
>meticulously-
for divining,
like the "Lull Engine" of Ramon Lull. If you want a *really* scholarly take
on all of this, hunt up Thorndike's *History of Magic and Experimental
Science*; it's old but still extremely valuable.
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In a message dated 12/10/99 12:02:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It's related to Baphomet, and also to the talking brass head that Roger
> Bacon is supposed to have had. BTW, for an excellent historical fantasy
> based on the Gerbert story, see Judith
edievalist.
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In a message dated 12/8/99 6:29:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> "Some say that he prayed to Satan to save him from the
> magician, and that Satan wafted him away beyond the sea. In order
> to get home, Gerbert agreed to give his soul to Satan, and Sat
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GERBERT OF AURILLAC (ca. 955-1003)
by Lynn Nelson, University of Kansas, Dept. of History
Gerbert was born somewhere in the mountainous region of
Auvergne, in central France. Since neither his place of birth nor
his parents were recorded, it seems likely th
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