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From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
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Subject: Re: Samual Delany's Dahlgren
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Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 12:40:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 12:40:36 1985
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In article <124@nte-scg.UUCP> phil@nte-scg.UUCP (Phil Trubey) writes:
>Tim Ryan writes...
>> One of the
>> things that sticks in my mind was that the main character had badly
>> disfigured

Almost all of Delany's books have a protagonist or major character
with disfigured hands.  Off the top of my head, this is true of Dhalgren,
Triton, the first two Neveryon books (and possibly the third, I haven't
read it yet), and Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand.  I greatly
suspect the same thing is true of Nova.

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.

				Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo