(urth) S.R. Delany's "Neveron" Stories
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Fri Jul 26 12:54:21 PDT 2013
Well, there's that. ;)
On 7/26/2013 3:49 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Delany is (or at least was) a Marxist with very little interest in
> religion.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:44 PM, David Stockhoff
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
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> On 7/25/2013 11:14 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Religion vs. non-religion, I don't know, passages from NOVA and
>> other works feel pretty damn religious to me. Maybe Delany
>> doesn't believe, but he sure can talk the talk.
>>
>> I believe he can do that. Maybe I was too sure of myself, but I
>> very, very strongly suspect that he simply dismisses the talk,
>> except maybe in occasional moods.
>>
>> Jerry Friedman
>>
>>
>
> I think Delany is concerned with, among other things, words and
> language and symbols as a form of power. Neveryona and some other
> novels are preoccupied with this idea (and sex).
>
> I don't see such a person as being interested in religion except
> as another form of power and another source of language. But I
> could be wrong.
>
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