Re: Dhalgren's first and last line
Erich Schneider <[email protected]>
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"Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <[email protected]> writes: > Two out of three: the double "to" is discussed in ... hell, I _think_ > it's the introduction to the Gregg edition, not sure. At any rate, > yes, it's very valid and not an insignificant achievement to recognize > it without prompting. (I came within an inch and missed; I noted the > double "to" and concluded that it was a clue that the book wasn't > "really" circular. Spiral, I thought, and evolved a complex double-helical > model that involved one of the women Kid meets coming into and > going out of Bellona going through a set of experiences that mirrors > (prisms? lenses?) Kidd's in the course of the novel. All wasted, since > "come to" is much more elegant and clearly correct. Certainly not wasted or "incorrect" in my mind. And the image of a spiral instead of a circle works well with the view of "living inside a text" as it is an analogy to the act of rereading - when you reread, you don't have the same experience as when you first read, so you're not simply repeating what went before. -- Erich Schneider [email protected] == Posted to delany-list, hosted at onelist^Wegroups^Wyahoo == == A mailing list for the discussion of the works of Samuel R. Delany. == Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delany-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/