<div dir="ltr">Delany is (or at least was) a Marxist with very little interest in religion.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:44 PM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>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.<br>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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
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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). <br>
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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.<br>
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