Re: Re: pedo in a speedo

Guy_Fawkes99 wrote:

>I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to imply Delany's a ped 
>or anything of the sort.  I've had a chance to discuss this with him 
>and he's obviously aware of how destructive a sexual relationship 
>can be for children.  But the theme (and its frequency) is so 
>discomfitting for me and for a lot of readers that I have to wonder 
>why it's so important for Delany to keep revisiting it.  What point 
>is he trying to make that's so imperative it's worth alienating and 
>risking a lot of readers over?
>
My hunch here is that for a while Delany saw it as testing another 
taboo. But he had clearly changed his mind by the time of the 
republication of... um... the book previously known as "The Tides of 
Lust", in which he added 100 years to some of the characters' ages to 
remove this factor. This seems like a clumsy solution, but knowing that 
Delany couldn't write clumsily if he had too, I suspect that he was 
drawing attention to the situation by appearing to deflect it.


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