Pynchon/Lennon

[JM]

I hope you like _Dhalgren_.  I've read it about five times, and occasionally have talked 
it up on pynchon-l with an enthusiasm bordering on the hobby-horsical.  It's just been 
re-issued in a new trade edition (Wesleyan University Press, 1996) with a brief 
forward by Wm Gibson, and (as I keep repeating) it deserves more attention than it's 
gotten in its first twenty years.  There are a couple non-fiction memoirs by Delany 
which may help with _Dhalgren_, namely _Heavenly Breakfast_, and _The Motion of 
Light in Water_.   (The latter of the two memoirs reveals more about Delany's sexual 
orientation than I really wanted to know.)  Also, I saw one place in another of 
Delany's little-known non-fiction/critical books where Delany comes right out and 
compares the sales history of _Dhalgren_ with that of _Gravity's Rainbow_.   It's not 
quite clear to me what motivated him to draw that particular comparison.                       
                                                                                 -jm