I'm really enjoying the book, have recommended it to my friends for Christmas reading and they all seem really interested in it.
You've written a lot about writers and literature, would be great to read something on the art of writing itself from you as well if that's something you'd be happy to do.
I'm delighted by the first chapter, and we have a copy arriving this weekend to read out loud as a family. My son did immediately ask, however, part way into the first chapter, how there can be observation of stars going on with a telescope during daylight hours? Perhaps in this other world, some stars are visible by day? At any rate, it seemed a good question from my boy that I had not thought of on my first read. The chapter does seem to have the father working during the day, and his son joining him for his own peak at the new star before full night arrives (as it mentions "even in the falling dark" near the end of the first chapter). I even ended up looking into what is possible to see in our world with a telescope during daylight, and there do not seem to be any stars visible by day (just the moon and a couple of the planets).
Powerful fiction! Thank you for sharing. I remain a great admirer of your thought and style, and I would love to translate your novels into Norwegian one day. Pray that I might get the opportunity to introduce your work to the Scandinavian reading public.
Do you know when this will be available on audiobook? I've decided to assign it to mostly 2nd and 3rd year non-theology college students for a 2000 level theology course I'll be teaching. It hits a lot of the same points that are brought up in Jordan Wood's book, your own academic work, and Bulgakov, but in ways that might resonate more with someone outside theology (I'm not officially done yet, but I admit, I've looked ahead). Not that I won't give them A LITTLE bit of the more heavy duty stuff, but only after a whole lot of explanation on my end first, which Kenogaia can help with.
Mr. Lucius and the director and staff of the the institution are depressingly similar to too many of the supervisors and management that I have encountered in child protective services. It is impressive and terrifying.
This seems as good a place as any to ask these questions:
As I read through your works, I keep wishing I had a specific late antiquity "recommended reading" list from you. (1) What books / surveys do you recommend to the lay reader to familiarize herself with Gnosticism in late antiquity? (2) What books / surveys do you recommend as overview of late antiquity in general?
I'm happy today....ordered Kenogaia and just witnessed the greatest chess player of all time and greatest endgame player of all time grind out an incredible win.... Magnus Carlsen
Okay… now I am debating if I should eat for the next three days or buy this extraordinary book. Thank you for sharing this. One of the beauties to have learned English was to find extraordinary authors like you. Thank you for directing me through paths I would have never been able to find myself. Dios te bendiga.
OK, I just bought it to read on my Mexico vacation, which begins December 16. I will let you know what I think. It's hard to imagine I won't like it, because I have loved everything I've read so far, which is why I joined this Substack.
I'm really enjoying the book, have recommended it to my friends for Christmas reading and they all seem really interested in it.
You've written a lot about writers and literature, would be great to read something on the art of writing itself from you as well if that's something you'd be happy to do.
Absorbing. I'm getting a faint hint of influence from Lilith on this chapter, but maybe that's presumptuous.
I'm delighted by the first chapter, and we have a copy arriving this weekend to read out loud as a family. My son did immediately ask, however, part way into the first chapter, how there can be observation of stars going on with a telescope during daylight hours? Perhaps in this other world, some stars are visible by day? At any rate, it seemed a good question from my boy that I had not thought of on my first read. The chapter does seem to have the father working during the day, and his son joining him for his own peak at the new star before full night arrives (as it mentions "even in the falling dark" near the end of the first chapter). I even ended up looking into what is possible to see in our world with a telescope during daylight, and there do not seem to be any stars visible by day (just the moon and a couple of the planets).
Well, I'm hooked. So far, beautiful in every way.
Powerful fiction! Thank you for sharing. I remain a great admirer of your thought and style, and I would love to translate your novels into Norwegian one day. Pray that I might get the opportunity to introduce your work to the Scandinavian reading public.
Do you know when this will be available on audiobook? I've decided to assign it to mostly 2nd and 3rd year non-theology college students for a 2000 level theology course I'll be teaching. It hits a lot of the same points that are brought up in Jordan Wood's book, your own academic work, and Bulgakov, but in ways that might resonate more with someone outside theology (I'm not officially done yet, but I admit, I've looked ahead). Not that I won't give them A LITTLE bit of the more heavy duty stuff, but only after a whole lot of explanation on my end first, which Kenogaia can help with.
Can you help with a question circulating? How is one to pronounce Paichnidia? One theory:
“Assuming this the Greek for ‘toys’: pe-HNEE-thia, where the e is pronounced like the one in ‘chef’, and the h is strong, like in ‘horror’.”
Mr. Lucius and the director and staff of the the institution are depressingly similar to too many of the supervisors and management that I have encountered in child protective services. It is impressive and terrifying.
Hooked. Can't put it down, and I dare not, "under penalty of detention and punitive orthodonture."
This seems as good a place as any to ask these questions:
As I read through your works, I keep wishing I had a specific late antiquity "recommended reading" list from you. (1) What books / surveys do you recommend to the lay reader to familiarize herself with Gnosticism in late antiquity? (2) What books / surveys do you recommend as overview of late antiquity in general?
Thank you for all you do!
Peace be with you.
O Joyous Light!
I'll save the chapter for when the book arrives next week, so all I can comment on is the front cover which is fantastic
I'm happy today....ordered Kenogaia and just witnessed the greatest chess player of all time and greatest endgame player of all time grind out an incredible win.... Magnus Carlsen
i'm ecstatic
Optime. Liber meus est in transitu.
Okay… now I am debating if I should eat for the next three days or buy this extraordinary book. Thank you for sharing this. One of the beauties to have learned English was to find extraordinary authors like you. Thank you for directing me through paths I would have never been able to find myself. Dios te bendiga.
OK, I just bought it to read on my Mexico vacation, which begins December 16. I will let you know what I think. It's hard to imagine I won't like it, because I have loved everything I've read so far, which is why I joined this Substack.