In a message dated 8/20/01 10:57:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Thanks for the insights. What I'm asking for is basically a feeling. What *seemed* like the...
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johnswalsh65@...
Sep 4, 2001 3:44 pm
... Splendour to be ... SF output ... underrated ... interests; ... failed. ... to Jewels ... hollow ... ploughing ... Station by ... Reynolds, ... me the ... ...
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johnswalsh65@...
Sep 4, 2001 3:49 pm
Dhalgren was the first book I read that shocked teenaged me, opening me up to ideas about what modern literature could be. Yet just today I ran into another...
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Gil Roth
groth@...
Sep 4, 2001 7:40 pm
Because I'm all about tooting my own horn (and getting you guys to order this video, which you can do through our PDF at www.voyantpub.com (it's still kinda...
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morbius
morbius@...
Sep 5, 2001 2:45 pm
On 09/05/01 04:35, Delany List said this- ... I'm not a literary reviewer, or even was I an english major in college, but, I've read a few things in my time,...
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raydavis@...
Sep 5, 2001 8:53 pm
No overtly ambitious piece of literature has ever escaped being called self-indulgent junk. Check out 19th century reviews of Melville -- and I still run into...
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kmisho64@...
Sep 6, 2001 1:53 pm
In a message dated 9/4/01 11:50:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I have a feeling I'm about to dump a longish email on all of you because I've thought more...
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dotenj@...
Sep 6, 2001 1:54 pm
Okay I mostly lurk, but here's what I've been doing while I've been lurking. I'm an illustrator who just had to paint a scene from Nova a while back. This...
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Gerhard Hope
babel17@...
Sep 6, 2001 6:51 pm
Mmm. The Wesleyan and Vintage reprints have opened up Dhalgren to a much wider, more 'mainstream' literary audience than that which granted its initial...
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John Walsh
johnswalsh65@...
Sep 6, 2001 10:30 pm
... This isn't really pertinent, but when I heard about the new editions I was especially interested in seeing the cover art. The original Dhalgren paperback...
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Peter Fogarty
oga@...
Sep 7, 2001 12:56 am
Hi all, Since we're discussing Dhalgren I thought I would share the chapter from my thesis with you all. I am not proud of my thesis as it feels incomplete, ...
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Amy Harlib
aharlib@...
Sep 7, 2001 1:12 pm
Dear Delany Devotees, I read Dhalgren when it first came ut in its Bantam mass market...
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creativebrother@...
Sep 7, 2001 1:42 pm
"is why Dhalgren is difficult to read, and perhaps one of the last century's greatest books, because in this postmodern, fragmented, schizophrenic culture,...
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Peter Fogarty
oga@...
Sep 10, 2001 12:40 am
... Yes, I adore the Einstein Intersection. I cannot play favourites with Delany's oeuvre because all of it is worthy in one respect or another. My personal...
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dotenj@...
Sep 10, 2001 12:41 am
I just reread most of Dhalgren, it did bog me down, even with all my fascinated reading of the essay's in Straits of Messina and all. I may pick it up again...
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Mischa B. Adams
mischa@...
Sep 10, 2001 12:53 am
We're talking about list members' experiences reading Dhalgren for the first or multiple times. First, I've really enjoyed your posts. Dhalgren is such a grand...
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morbius
morbius@...
Sep 10, 2001 1:48 pm
On 09/10/01 04:48, Delany List said this- ... Feminist criticism is always, uh, fresh and interesting, ain't it? It was not too, too, long ago, that a wave of...
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david carlton
carlton@...
Sep 10, 2001 5:53 pm
... Is Kid a mad-man? I mean, I know that some of his experiences are modeled on (real-world) cognitive problems, like dyslexia. And, for that matter, he...
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jswalsh65@...
Sep 11, 2001 1:52 pm
Hello, I, too, had a weird reaction reading the post about the rape/men's reaction/women's experience thing. But even if we've heard the "you go girl!"...
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jswalsh65@...
Sep 11, 2001 1:56 pm
I, too, recall my reaction to the scene where Kid says he's not going to interfere with the fight, he was scared to death. That honest was refreshing. Most...
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jswalsh65@...
Sep 11, 2001 1:56 pm
Me again--just saw a book compared to Dhalgren: "Distortion" by Stephen Beachy, a website: www.distortionthebook.com. Know nothing about it, really, but who...
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Robillard, Douglas
drobillard@...
Sep 12, 2001 3:58 pm
Hi, all- In the wake of yesterday's tragic events, I could not help but think of some of Samuel R. Delany's works. A native New Yorker, and very much a "poet...
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Zvi Gilbert
zvi@...
Sep 12, 2001 4:15 pm
... I thought of Delany too. In the meditations on dawn section that ends 'Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand', Marq says there's a section of a poem that...
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Gil Roth
groth@...
Sep 13, 2001 1:24 pm
Chip was in Philadelphia during the attack. He and his partner (who's still in NYC) are safe. In case anyone was wondering. Gil Roth Publisher Voyant...
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Ron Henry
rgh3@...
Sep 13, 2001 7:30 pm
... Yes, with one of the threads running through the images it seems to me being the archetype of the Tower card in the Tarot pack. (I don't have my copy of...
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Bob Kingsley
bob.kingsley@...
Sep 13, 2001 7:32 pm
... I was. Thank you, Gil. Samuel's "1984" recently gave me, an Englishman who's never visited NY or the USA (but has always wanted to) a wonderful insight...
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Robillard, Douglas
drobillard@...
Sep 14, 2001 9:12 pm
I was struck by Ron Henry's mention of the Tower card in the Tarot pack. It just hadn't occurred to me although I am familiar with the cards. I also think...
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Gerhard Hope
babel17@...
Sep 15, 2001 7:08 pm
... From: John Walsh To: delany-list@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [delany-list] Re: Dhalgren as literature? I once...
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Ron Henry
rgh3@...
Sep 18, 2001 4:23 am
Folks: This note by Delany, his reactions to last week's events, is forwarded from another public list (the avant-garde poetics out of SUNY Buffalo, run by...
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dotenj@...
Sep 18, 2001 6:27 am
I had to make maximum use of that sun card on my NOVA painting ( has anyone here taken a peek that that ? ) I don't always into to so convinient a symbol....
