Dhalgren

[RICHARD ROMEO]

 JM wrote:  "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. ...

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_."



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Thanks, JM:  I finally found this version with Wm Gibson's intro in 
Shakespeare and Co; People at Bars and Ignoble just scratched their nuts 
and shook their heads.  Blurb on the back of the book reminds me of 
GR--the large vision, the opposing sensibilities:  staright/gay; 
black/white, etc., the apocalyptic scenario, and obviously its length. (I 
have to finish the Quincunx first though--another big book I would 
recommend being half-way through-curious if any of our mates from Old 
Blitey Blighty? have read this)  



Bob Norton wrote:  

"I found Dahlgren to be the biggest literary waste of time I ever

encountered. It kept promising the possibility of a plot JUST enough to 
keep

me from tossing it aside but when I was finished I had gained NOTHING. I

only recommend it to people I don't like."

                                                        Bob N.



I will keep in mind Bob s comments  but I've read books with no plot and 
loved'em just the same.  

Bob:  Are we necessarily supposed to gain something from finishing a book 
besides the enjoyment of the journey?  GR and IJ would seem to support 
this, no?

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Chris H. wrote:   Too creepy. I'm from NYC. I *was* in love with a 
librarian. 

Then I got better. 



Sure beats nothing being connected to anything."

Chris:  I am a librarian I too fell in love with a librarian I too 
traverse the boundaries that conspire to be NYC.  I still don't feel 
better.Thanks for the Lotion info (hardy har har)-Is "Juggernaut"  
another manifestation of V? Gotta find those lyrics.  





Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org