(urth) TSH: Doris and Lupine

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Not to be contradictory, but the narrator isn't insane in _Dhalgren_.
However, the viewpoint character may be.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> 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.
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> .
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>> 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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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes