Re: Delany & John Wilkins 'universal character'?

Erich Schneider <[email protected]>
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Ralph Dumain <[email protected]> writes:

> I stumbled onto this reference.  I don't recall Wilkins or the 
> philosophical languages (universal character) of the 17th century 
> coming up in Delany, but I'm rusty:
> 
> Collings, Michael R. 1986. "Samuel R. Delany and John Wilkins: 
> Artificial Languages, Science, and Science Fiction." In Reflections 
> on the Fantastic, 61-68. New York: Greenwood,
> 1986.
> 
> Does this or anything like it ring a bell with anyone?

Perhaps it relates Wilkins' ideas with the language that is central to
_Babel-17_. 

-- 
Erich Schneider  [email protected]


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