Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jagardner From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Samual Delany's Dahlgren Message-ID: <16107@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 12:40:36 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.16107 Posted: Thu Aug 8 12:40:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 04:43:34 EDT References: <124@nte-scg.UUCP> Reply-To: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 In article <124@nte-scg.UUCP> phil@nte-scg.UUCP (Phil Trubey) writes: >Tim Ryan writes... >> One of the >> things that sticks in my mind was that the main character had badly >> disfigured Almost all of Delany's books have a protagonist or major character with disfigured hands. Off the top of my head, this is true of Dhalgren, Triton, the first two Neveryon books (and possibly the third, I haven't read it yet), and Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand. I greatly suspect the same thing is true of Nova. Don't ask me why. Either Delany dislikes his hands, he knows someone with disfigured hands, or it's some literary allusion I don't understand. Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo