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From: randy@bcsaic.UUCP (randy groves)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 12:31:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 12:31:45 1985
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In article <16089@watmath.UUCP> jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) writes:
>[...]
>
>Most people don't find Dhalgren their cup of tea, and I can certainly
>understand that.  However, Delany can write the socks off practically
>any other modern writer, even when you hate his material.  It's well
>worth anyone's while to go to the library and take out Dhalgren to
>see if you like it.
>

I heartily agree.  It's been some time since I read Dhalgren or any Delaney,
but I can remember being involved and taken to a place that I did not fully
understand, but could identify with at some gut level that was very striking.
Some of the scenes and occurrences in Dhalgren also correspond to a mind 
operating in an expanded, altered state.

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