(urth) TSH: Doris and Lupine

[brunians at brunians.org]

You're not being contradictory.

You're being a pedant.

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> 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.
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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