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867 Biblioteca Nazionale ...
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Jun 1, 2002
2:24 pm
Hallo, here I am again with another problem. When Kidd and madame Brown leave the Richards' house (apart from the term *disfocus* which I didn't find in any...
868 Steve Maxey
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Jun 1, 2002
5:10 pm
... I don't think this invalidates the point. I think Delany would argue that his opinions and perspectives and analysis as writer are no more nor less useful...
869 Biblioteca Nazionale ...
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Jun 1, 2002
5:54 pm
This is a test. I receive, but I don't see my messages in the list. Do you? bye Maurizio Nati...
870 Steve Maxey
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Jun 1, 2002
6:24 pm
... I saw your earlier message (Questions 2). haven't had a chance to search my copies of Dhalgren for the scene described. And it's a lovely day out, so I may...
871 kmisho64@...
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Jun 1, 2002
7:38 pm
In a message dated 5/28/02 8:22:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Everyone's first reading of Dhalgren must be a rather unique experience. I think it depends on...
872 Johnwlsh6@...
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Jun 1, 2002
7:38 pm
Nope, I got your message. John W...
873 Johnwlsh6@...
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Jun 1, 2002
7:39 pm
Steve, I enjoy your remarks on Dhalgren--and how it affected you personally--than I did that stupid essay in Ash of Stars. I was nodding my head when you ...
874 jswalsh65 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2002
7:39 pm
I am enjoying the talk about Dhalgren immensely. I could read about this book forever. I was wondering if anyone would like to share their thoughts about ...
875 Steve Maxey
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Jun 1, 2002
11:46 pm
... There was a lot of discussion of Triton on the list back in February (pretty much the whole month), much of it very intense. You may want to go through the...
876 jswalsh65 Offline Send Email Jun 2, 2002
11:44 pm
Thanks for the ref. to old Triton discussion. This is what ahppens when you go away for a mere 7 months. best, John W P.S. Anyone wanna suggest another novel...
877 Eli Bishop
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Jun 3, 2002
1:43 am
By coincidence, I just read Kim Stanley Robinson's 1984 novel THE WILD SHORE and caught an amusing if clumsy inside joke. Briefly, the book deals with some...
878 Biblioteca Nazionale ...
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Jun 3, 2002
1:08 pm
Now it's everything all right. I receive regularly. bye Maurzio Nati...
879 Biblioteca Nazionale ...
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Jun 3, 2002
1:08 pm
... I did, for the first series of questions. In this case I quoted the entire phrase, thinking it was explicative enough. In the future I'll provide always...
880 Clementine Delaney
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Jun 3, 2002
4:41 pm
Yes, the essay was patronizing on many levels. Although it bothered me, I also laughed when Blackford suggested Heinlen could have revised Stranger in a ...
881 Clementine Delaney
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Jun 3, 2002
5:41 pm
Hi Johnwlsh I enjoyed your post and pulled out Ash of Stars to read and reread. I also feel that frustration with indirect writing although I have found some...
882 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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Jun 3, 2002
6:39 pm
John W writ... ... Okay, from a purely personal perspective ... The first thing that struck me when I picked up a brand-new copy of TRITON was that it wasn't...
883 Ray Davis
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Jun 3, 2002
7:36 pm
... Perhaps it's because I empathize so strongly with Bron (TROUBLE ON TRITON is the example which taught me that "A satire, to be useful, must be ...
884 Johnwlsh6@...
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Jun 4, 2002
12:33 am
Dan'l-- Hmmm, he hmmm'd. Many believe that Dhalgren marked a break with Delany's first half of his career; from Fall of the Towers on, the books were obviously...
885 maryxxx19 Offline Send Email Jun 4, 2002
12:35 pm
Hey look, I'm new here, and I'm not very critical in the sense of linguistics or writing as a scientific study of some sort. But I came to this club needing...
886 David Cozy
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Jun 4, 2002
1:27 pm
... Hey look, Mary, why don't you *tell us about* the emotional value Dhalgren has for you. That's the way to enter the conversation and SHIFT the COLLEGIATE...
887 David Cozy
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Jun 4, 2002
2:00 pm
... I didn't dislike it, but I didn't love it either. In fact it seemed rather tame to me. That, I'm sure, was because I'd heard so much about it and...
888 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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Jun 4, 2002
4:26 pm
... Two points: 1) The word "half" is, I think, inappropriate here; the period from Delany's first publication to _Dhalgren_ is only twelve years out of the...
889 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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Jun 4, 2002
4:26 pm
... Well, when I first read _Dhalgren_, when it came out, I was a sophomore in high school, 16 years old, and the emotional value I place on the book has a lot...
890 Clementine Delaney
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Jun 4, 2002
10:25 pm
Hello Mary I have no idea if you were responding to my post but since I got private email from a person saying he didn't want to email me in public because the...
891 David Cozy
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Jun 5, 2002
12:03 am
... As the author of the "academic feces" comment I see that I need to apologize for my lame attempt at humor. That's really all that it was; it wasn't...
892 Zvi Gilbert
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Jun 5, 2002
2:23 am
Hello list members, Quite the interesting series of discussions over the last few weeks! Here are three bits from the last while that I want to respond to. ......
893 Johnwlsh6@...
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Jun 5, 2002
3:07 am
Clemmy, I hope you don't think I was saying your comments about this were boring when I e-mailed you--I was trying to say MINE were! Best, John W...
894 Johnwlsh6@...
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Jun 5, 2002
3:31 am
Mary-- Post your feelings! I need all the support I can get! (I'm serious.) I really would like to read what you have to say--the longer the better. If you...
895 Johnwlsh6@...
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Jun 5, 2002
3:33 am
"dcozy"-- Your comment about the last part being written before the action is a new one. WIll be thumbing through again tonight. Last night I was comparing...
896 kmisho64@...
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Jun 5, 2002
1:47 pm
In a message dated 6/4/02 10:27:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, zvi@... ... As far as the mind-veriage.... Delany has mentioned being interested in John ...
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