I'll take that on trust, Robin, not being any sort of expert. I too
ploughed through all those books years ago, but I found them very
stimulating. Though I'm not one who dismisses popular introductions
to complex topics: they seem to me to be extremely valuable if we are
to avod a society of priests speaking Latin to each other and
discussing angels on the head of a pin. I don't buy the idea either
that the "popular" is per se worthless (not that I'm suggesting you
imply this): to hold that as unswervable truth is as pernicious a
snobbishness as the idea that any text that isn't immediately
comprehensible is a wank.
Cheers
A
At 10:01 PM +0000 3/1/04, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> > Are you being rude about Yates as well as Bruno, Robin?
>
>Yup, Alison.
>
>> What's wrong with you?
>
>Well, at some stage I ploughed (that being the operative word) through
>virtually every single book she published (though not the articles), from
>her work on The School of Night via Bruno and English Renaissance
>Hermeticism to The Art of Memory. (I may have the sequence wrong.)
>
>Not an experience I'm anxious to repeat.
>
>The noise-to-information level is rather high for my taste, she takes the
>ideas rather too seriously (I'm with Wayne Schumaker here on how one studies
>Renaissance occultism), and most of her wilder ideas are neither properly
>documented or argued.
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