Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site nte-scg.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!bnr-vpa!nte-scg!phil From: phil@nte-scg.UUCP (Phil Trubey) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: DeSamual Delany Message-ID: <125@nte-scg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:31:43 EDT Article-I.D.: nte-scg.125 Posted: Tue Aug 13 10:31:43 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 13:38:15 EDT References: <124@nte-scg.UUCP> <16107@watmath.UUCP> <6085@duke.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Northern Telecom Electronics, Ottawa, Ontario Lines: 23 >> 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. > Here's my frivolous literary theory of the week > A deformity of the hands could symbolize > powerlessness -- an inability to "handle" the world or some part of > it. That fits with Nova, at least. Actually that would also fit with _Triton_ ... although I can't really remember if the protaganist's hands in the story were disfigured. While on the subject of hands, in both _The_Einstein_Intersection_ and _Triton_, a current dress fashion is to have your hands incased in tiny cages. -- Phil Trubey Northern Telecom Electronics Ltd. Ottawa, Ontario Mail path: ...!bnr-vpa!nte-scg!phil