(urth) TSH: Doris and Lupine

[brunians at brunians.org]

Yeah, that's right.

It's a very, very bad idea to treat Dhalgren like a Wolfe book.

Wolfe uses unreliable narrators.

Delany uses an insane narrator.

.



> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Â <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>> There's a lot more happening in Dhalgren than things being seriously
>>> out
>>> of order.
>>
>> Well, _yes_...
>
> I once tried to read _Dhalgren_; couldn't finish it.
>
> As it happens, Delany was a guest this year at I-CON and I attended
> one of his panels and watched a fair bit of the Delany movie; both
> covered _Dhalgren_ at some length.
>
> I won't give any speciously specific quotes since I wasn't especially
> interested in the comments on _Dhalgren_, but I gathered that one
> shouldn't look too hard for answers in it - Delany is definitely not
> Wolfe and the significance of many of the allusions and themes is
> minimal.
>
> --
> gwern
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