Accent or no accent, being who he is will skew his fiction one way or the other. As it would with anyone. I was surprised that there were some issues I found...
SRD is more gay than straight, CB, although if he -is- Kid, that theory could easily be challenged. Note that the great early love of his life, the poet...
In a message dated 3/7/02 3:38:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I don't know really...I always assumed his friends always called him 'Chip' so that's the way...
... Okay, look. SRD is gay. He calls himself (current terminology is 'self-defines as') gay, he says he's always known it, and all of his fiction and...
... This is in 'The Motion of Light in Water'. His father's name was also Samuel, and he was called 'Little Sam' a lot, and hated it. When he went to summer...
... <delany-list@yahoogroups.com> ===== ... Oh, please, SRD in NOT Kid. Read any of his memoirs on the writing of Dhalgren and it's clear. Even within...
... 'Chip' ... Odd story: I grew up in a very white suburb. There were two black families in the school system. I ended up in a very white college (maybe 2% of...
On 10:42 AM 3/9/02 +0000, delany-list@yahoogroups.com read from the ... This is speculation, but since he's a "junior" there might have been some issue of that...
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gerhard hope
babel17@...
Mar 10, 2002 3:39 pm
Advance apologies if someone else has already mentioned this. I picked it up in David Langford's Ansible 174 (January 2002): In Typo Veritas: '... the sea...
There was a time, long ago and far away, when the value of imaginative literature was not reducible to the demographic characteristics of the people producing...
... <delany-list@yahoogroups.com> ===== ... general ... Actually, I think it is your appeal to the notion of a "general audience" that is a fiction. There...
... From: Ralph Dumain To: delany-list@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 9:41 AM Subject: [delany-list] Re: black fiction I notice that kids today...
Yes, I've heard all this crap before. But for what it's worth, let me try again. The pairing of concepts marginal-universal does not imply that the only...
Hi Everyone- This is my first post... I have been lurking here for a couple of weeks, absorbing all of your comments with great interest... I hope to be able...
"....a kind of social panic when confronted by an uncomfortable truth......Gays can and do have desire and sex with those of the opposite sex; and guess what,...
... This is not just a matter of disagreeing over abstract categories though. You are attempting to say that you have the right to define someone else's ...
... And do you also claim that Delany IS Rydra Wong and that Delany IS Comet Jo and that Delany is the unnamed narrator of Hogg and that Delany IS Bron...
Yes, he's all of those characters. I don't know Comet Jo, but I do know Wydra. He's Wydra. She's his author persona. He's also Lobey in Einstein Intersection. ...
"it seems rather ludicrous to demand that he now identify as bisexual " I demand nothing. I merely see him as a bisexual who lives as gay or a bisexual who...
Dear Creative Brother, By your rationale: all gay men who have had at least one sexual encounter throughout their life with a woman is not gay, but indeed...
Hopefully, people will soon return to discussing Delany's works and above all his ideas instead of who he dicks. One aspect of the infantilism of this list is...
... You sure seem to get off on calling people you disagree with infantile or babies. Do you think this makes your arguments more credible? Do you think this...
What is dead is the incoherent sort of argument presented here. But at last there is some discussion of Delany's work itself. Now what does the Hamlet story...
Ralph may be a bit abrasive in his presentation, but I hear his point. Let's get back to discussing the actual work of Delany. With regards to black fiction,...
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gerhard hope
babel17@...
Mar 13, 2002 5:17 pm
Hi I have managed to lay my hands on 1984 from the University of South Africa library (with the rand/dollar exchange at the moment, buying books in South...
... Well, the canonical response is 'It has neither egg nor cream.' It's an old-style NYC soda fountain beverage, made with milk and seltzer and chocolate...
... (By the way, what is an egg cream?) In other parts of the U.S., the same item is referred to as a milk shake, a shake, or a frappe. It is a blended...
... Well, I guess there we differ. I don't think he HAS a valid point--ESPECIALLY as it refers to the work of Delany....
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digmez@...
Mar 13, 2002 8:40 pm
This is totally wrong! An egg cream NEVER has ice cream. NYC fountains (what they also call a candy store when it has a counter with soda on tap) serve egg ...
... You do yourself a consistent disservice by beginning your arguments in such a dismissive and arrogant tone. It would have been easier for me, as an...
