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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: DeSamual Delany
Message-ID: <6139@duke.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:06:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:06:38 1985
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References: <124@nte-scg.UUCP> <16107@watmath.UUCP> <6085@duke.UUCP> <125@nte-scg.UUCP>
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In article <125@nte-scg.UUCP> phil@nte-scg.UUCP (Phil Trubey) writes:
>
>> 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.  
>
Wow.  I wish I were in an English class (grad students don't get to take
English classes unless they are English grad students.)  This could make
a term paper!

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			Charlie Martin
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