Fw:other books with the Philosopher's Stone

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

Heidi wrote:

> As I'm making it fully off topic, does anyone else have recs of 
books containing the philosopher's stone?

The Chymical Wedding, by Lindsay Clarke.  Set in about 1980 and 
Victorian times.

It has lots of alchemy in it, though for that very reason treats the 
stone as essentially allegorical: what the alchemists *really* 
wanted from the stone was not longevity and money, but purity.  It 
was the (non-physical) thing that they wanted to be able to turn the 
base metal of their own natures into the purity that gold represents.

Anyway, I liked the book.

David