What are exactly these *vinyl vests* the scorpions wear? I mean, vinyl is a kind of plastic, used for instance for 33's LP, but I think it's also a kind of...
... It's a kind of plastic, short for "polyvinyl chloride." It was used for most LPs and 45s from the late 60s on; it's used to make the plastic pipes used for...
Around 12:39 PM 5/6/2003, delany-list@yahoogroups.com wrote, ... Yeah, it's a (usually black) vest made of shiny plastic material (not really fabric, as it's...
There are two reasons that I know of for someone to wear vinyl clothing in the 1960s and 1970s: 1) As a cheap subsitute for leather. 2) As a fetish material in...
... Indeed, serious fetishists will wear rubber/latex, not vinyl. Vinyl has always kind of had that tacky, cheesy aspect to it (think of the vinyl miniskirts...
... To avoid confusion from my first message, I hasten to agree with this one. Vinyl is a cheap replacement for leather, but it seems even more inadequate as a...
There's a nice article about Delany in the current LA Weekly. You can find it at: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/25/books-miller.php. Apparently Delany will...
At p. 55 (beginning of part II), I find: *Here I am and am no I. This circle in all, this change changing in winterless, a dawn circle with an image of, an...
I read this initially as having "mist" as the conclusion of both parts. On the other hand, the incompleteness and ambiguity might be the point. The whole quote...
... Well, starting at the start ... This is, if I recall correctly, a passage from the notebook which Kid(d) is reading. It's quite dense, but unpacking a bit:...
Around 03:44 AM 5/11/2003, delany-list@yahoogroups.com wrote, ... Certainly this passage is not a typographical error, but is intended to be that way. These...
George Harrison, speaking with Lanya of her former boyfriend, Phil, says at p. 213 that he was "a stuckup, up-tight, tight-assed asshole... Smart? Oh, he was...
... Right. The earlier part is saying he's arrogant, inhibited, controlling, etc. "Smart as a whip" is a common idiomatic expression (a quick Google search on...
"Smart as a whip" is definitely a compliment. It originted as a double pun, though now it's an idiom. "Smart" not only means "intelligent", it's also a verb...
Actually, "smart as a whip" is a pretty well known metaphor. When you whip something, it smarts. To smart: to cause or be the cause or seat of a sharp ...
Around 06:51 PM 5/15/2003, "Maurizio Nati" wrote, ... This passage is also another nice example of the little touches Delany puts on the speech of George...
At p. 241, after the death of Bobby Richards, Dragon Lady is furious at mrs Richards who keeps crying. Smokey says to her: "Why do you shout thing up like...
... First "I don't know as how I wouldn't" is a common, colloquial circumlocution for "I probably [or almost surely] would" And "like they meant it" is a...
Hello all, Actually, in Auden's and Hollander's translations of the Elder Edda poems, there is no mention anywhere of the use of "rune stones" (meaning small ...
Around 11:23 AM 5/17/2003, delany-list@yahoogroups.com wrote, ... Well, I think it's pretty clear that DL is being more than a bit obnoxious here, to cover her...
... I used to watch the TV show "Earth: Final Conflict", which started out OK but then became really awful. At one point a supposedly Irish character is seen...
... One additional thing that strikes me about the passage (and I thought of this immediately after my previous note) is that the colloquial circumlocutions...
... I suspect that it suggests that Dragon Lady is (like Delany) a first-generation northern urban black, the child of parents who moved to the northern cities...
We Scandinavians see these "rune stones" as a purely American invention - certainly our ancestors, who used runes in their everyday writing, never thought to...
OK. Since you are so ready, here's another group of questions. p. 301 (half page) Kid & Lanya speaking. <He folded his arms across her neck and pushed her head...
... It's a repertory movie theater showing what would be a very trendy double-feature in the late 1970s or a second-run movie house showing a possible...
(For those who aren't familiar with the movies, I should add that "Straw Dogs" is about middle-class resentment breaking out into vigilante violence after a...
