Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site bcsaic.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bcsaic!randy From: randy@bcsaic.UUCP (randy groves) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren Message-ID: <212@bcsaic.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 12:31:45 EDT Article-I.D.: bcsaic.212 Posted: Wed Aug 14 12:31:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:35:07 EDT References: <662@ihu1g.UUCP> <71@unc.unc.UUCP> <16089@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: randy@bcsaic.UUCP (randy groves) Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 22 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. -- =========================================================================== ... only a hollygram, but one more is gone. =========================================================================== randy groves ...!uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!randy