Sentimental Journey

[KENNETH HOUGHTON]

One of my coworkers--in the midst of a discussion of women in the military, 
fire, and police departments--was reflecting back Saturday on the Glory Days 
when the NYPD would send 100 or so BIG Irish Cops into Harlem or Spanish Harlem 
and do an apartment-by-apartment search (without warrants or probable cause, of 
course), when anyone who didn't cooperate immediately would "fall down the 
stairs."

It makes even more obvious Kathryn Cramer's observation that _Dhalgren_ really 
is NYC the way Chip (whose birthday is tomorrow, just for the record) Delany saw
it.

And, taking that reference full-circle, the March _Interzone_ (#117) features a 
story by Paul Di Filippo ("Alice, Alfie, Ted, and the Aliens") in which Delany 
plays either (choose one) a minor or the pivotal role.


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Subject: Re[2]: Sentimental Journey
Author:  Bruce_Appelbaum at chemsystems.com (Bruce Appelbaum) at dbnaccip
Date:    3/31/97 11:06 AM


     Are you kidding?  Rockets were dangerous!  Just ask my mother.  
     Besides, setting off rockets in the Bronx could break something (most 
     likely our heads if the cops caught us -- these were the days when 
     kids were fair game for NY's finest to bully -- I couldn't start to 
     count how many stickball bats were confiscated and thrown down sewers 
     without due process by the boys in blue).