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Hey!" Jack the Ripper punched at Glass' shoulder. "Who's a fuckin' ape, nigger?
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Gee," Denny said. "On the tape, it sounds just like you playing.
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"She's walking," I said.
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They passed around. The other extension of the L-shaped sign said:
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June came in: "Oh, hey, I'll take some of those…" They divided the stack, left.
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The others laughed.
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Are you a student? It's terrible, people attacking people right out in the open like this. Terrible!
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Madame Brown, dubious, set out glasses and picked the gallon jug up from the floor. "Well, it will be interesting." She twisted at the cap, her face lining with effort. "It's in three Sundays, isn't it?" The cap seemed stuck. "Mary will never forgive me if I go. She's invited me for dinner. But I wouldn't miss it for the world."
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She looked back, confusion working through her face toward some other expression.
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People are very funny," Nightmare pronounced, recovering, nodding over another mouthful. "The ladies had their problems." He thumped his thumb against his sternum among rattling links. "I had mine too—some of the brothers just weren't interested in having no white people involved no how.
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The terrace was enclosed in a glass dome. In the center was a six-foot in diameter celestial globe of clear plastic. Light from the garden below struggled in the smoke above, glowing like dilute milk.
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I want my old room!
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The other expression was understanding.
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No. I spent all my time around Vancouver and B.C.
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Oh. No…" he said, and decided "Elegy" was the title. "Look, you've got everything up here. Maybe I should just go on and leave.
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A sharp drop stopped him.
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Hey, Kid!" The smile was a pit of flickering rot and silver. "You really doing nice here, huh? Beautiful, yeah. Beautiful.
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Up a lot of dark stairs with Glass saying, "Man, I didn't know you were this close. You're just around the God-damn corner," and Thirteen saying: "I told you I was just around the God-damn corner; why ain't you guys never come over to see us?" and I looked up:
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She raised a brow and came, intently curious.
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Mainly cleaning up, or cleaning out I suppose. You are interested, aren't you? They'll pay five dollars an hour, and those aren't the sort of wages you can sneeze at in Bellona right through here.
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He got up with me," Lanya explained. "We were going to come out and surprise you while you were wandering around looking preoccupied. I told him we couldn't do it if you were anywhere near a pencil and paper. But then, when we got to the porch, we saw you talking to her.
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Naw. Didn't you ever fuck a woman?
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You want to use the bathroom or wash or something?
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Dollar, his pimply back bright with sweat, stood centered in the clearing, feet wide, knees and head bent. Each clap detonated something in his belly that flung his hands, hips, and shoulders about.
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You're so conservative," Lady of Spain suggested, "it comes out the other way and gets radical?
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Fireball looked back at me. The sleepy smile returned. "Okay," he said. "Hey, thanks, Kid. Okay…"
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Under a haystack mustache, the bartender sucked his teeth. "What do you think this place is, anyway?" He shook his head, and walked off.
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"Madame Brown? No kidding. What kind of job?" She rolled to her stomach beside him.
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"Change your mind yet?" Kid asked.
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Yeah, Kid thought, that's anger. He laughed.
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"Right on, motherfucker!" Nightmare shook his fork for emphasis.
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Somewhere across the patio, Lanya was holding paper plates in both hands, about to give them away. Turquoise billowed about her silver hem, trying and failing to rise like a lazy lava lamp. He started to go take a plate, but suddenly thought of Denny, looked around for him—
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But neither could the fantasies stop self-laughter.
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"Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind."
~ Samuel R. Delany, born today, 1942.
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I stood up and, under George's eyes
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Wow, I had missed the controversy about #SamuelRDelany's apparent support, or at least not condemnation of #pedophilia.
https://dorisvsutherland.com/2019/09/23/samuel-r-delany-and-nambla/
It is definitely not as clear cut as the creepy #Epstein-type guys, since Delany's opinions seemed informed by actually getting molested himself when 6 years old.
And then it is further complicated by him being gay/bisexual, which was just as reviled as pedophilia in the 70s and 80s, which showed how common opinion is often completely wrong.
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Listening to the audiobook version of #Dhalgren, and it has actually let me appreciate little descriptions of things that I had glossed over when reading it before. #SamuelRDelany can really turn a phrase.
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗗𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗥. 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘆 -
After my last two reads of him, this magnum opus has been eagerly anticipated (even though word on the street is that it might take me a few months)! A transgressive hallucinatory riddle? I'm there for it!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #SamuelRDelany #Dhalgren #sciencefiction #sf #scifi
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Madame Brown, hands behind her back, looked at the pavement, walked slowly.
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The Kid is what Iron Wolf tried to name me. And the girl in the commune tried to put on the other 'd'. But it isn't my name. I don't remember my God-damn name.
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He'd jumped, in surprise, turning.
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Her eyes questioned. Her lips moved on one another, did not open.
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Sweated a lot," Fenster said. "And tried to think of some way to leave. You know, guys who come to parties like this in berets and talk about liberating the furniture: Now I'm pretty into that. But I guess that type all had sense, enough to get out of Bellona while there was some getting. This Stepin Fetchit stuff, though—well, all I can say is, it's been a while!
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Ce lundi, je voulais photographier les eaux boueuses du Vidourle. Finalement, le ciel sortira grand vainqueur de cette image.
Les journées raccourcissent et je dois désormais enfiler un gilet fluo pour sécuriser mon trajet à vélo du matin. La lumière matinale sied toujours bien au Vidourle.
Petite boucle d’une douzaine de kilomètres dans le massif de Coutach ce mercredi matin, sous un […]
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Has anyone read Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany? Or there of his books? If not I can't recommend him enough.
I should read Dhalgren again. I had a tough time with it, but I made it to the end. But I might have an easier time upon reading it again -
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Kid thought, unsure: Three against two.
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I picked up this paperback of Samuel R. Delany’s “Nova” back in the early 2000s when I was attempting to read my way through David Pringle’s list of the 100 greatest science fiction novels (pre-1984), and I kinda want to revisit it. Despite Delany’s impeccable reputation I can’t help but picture STAR TREK Space Hippies when envisioning his cast. Would he mind? #1960s #Books #Nova #SamuelRDelany #ScienceFiction
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DISTANT STARS (1980)
Acrylic on primed panel - 18" x 28"I was stuck for a while as I tried to come up with a design structure to unify the elements I wanted to include in this composition. 1/5
#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #sff #illustration #samuelrdelany
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Catspiders, attack! #MiaWolff joins the #podcast to talk about her amazing new book, THE EMPTY LOT, what it was like to find a narrative thread among 100 of her paintings over 40 years, making an afterword with #SamuelRDelany, her pitch with #Fantagraphics, & more, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-621-mia-wolff
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Kid wanted to walk.
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𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀: 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 -
Here are the best fiction books I read through 2024. Full reviews at waywordsstudio. com.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #bestof2024 #readreadread #bookreviews2024 #fiction #alanmoore #jerusalem #maryshelley #frankenstein #tonyburgess #iralevin #rosemarysbaby #riverofink #aleksandarhemon #thelazarusproject #thefuture #angiethomas #thehateugive #samuelrdelany #babel17 #tombofsand #martinmacinnes #inascension
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Kid walked toward the scowling blond and took his shoulder. "Now you just go on and get yourself something to eat!" He shook the scorpion's shoulder in large motions. "There's enough for everybody, see?" Am I really getting away with this? Kid began to laugh. "Come on, give him a piece of ham." He pushed the scorpion toward the fire. And I'll just turn, walk away, and wait for a fork in my shoulder.
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The niggers. The first night, I guess it was. When all that lightning was going on. They went wild. Swarmed all over. Broke up a whole lot of stuff around here—Jackson's just down there.
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He let a random line of print tug his eyes across. Words detonated memories intense enough to blot the fact that they were not his—or, at least, this wasn't… or… Behind his lips the teeth hung open; now his lips pulled apart. He took a silent breath. My poem, he thought, terribly excited, terribly happy.
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Gestern erst entdeckt: ganz putzeliges und kurzweiliges und kluges Gespräch von Carina Zacharia von Bücherwelten mit Hannes Riffel über den #CarcosaVerlag, Genre, Vorurteile, Übersetzung, Buchgestaltung mit BensWerk und Hardy Kettlitz, Niveau und Pfade abseits des Gewöhnlichen, Nischenverlagsszene, #UrsulaKLeGuin, #BeckyChambers, #AlanMoore, #SamuelRDelany, #PhantastischeWeltliteratur und und und.
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Neuromancer, chapter 17:
One foot bare, the other in a velvet slipper.
There's your obligatory Dhalgren reference. #SamuelRDelany #sciencefiction #GreatDismal
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗥. 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘆 -
Delany once again bends the reader's mind through a first-person alien PofV in this unexpectedly clever adventure story!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #samuelrdelany #empirestar #sciencefiction #sf #pointofview