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From: phil@nte-scg.UUCP (Phil Trubey)
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Subject: Re: DeSamual Delany
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:31:43 EDT
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>> 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

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