Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!crm From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: DeSamual Delany Message-ID: <6139@duke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:06:38 EDT Article-I.D.: duke.6139 Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:06:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:14:15 EDT References: <124@nte-scg.UUCP> <16107@watmath.UUCP> <6085@duke.UUCP> <125@nte-scg.UUCP> Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Distribution: net Organization: Duke University Lines: 22 Summary: 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! -- Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)