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Samuel R. Delany

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Josh Geller29 Jan 2003, 16:26originalas archived
Samuel R. Delany
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote: I mentioned the fiction of Samuel R. Delany before, and since then it has occured to me that it would be a real scream if Green's hidden/encrypted name were decoded as "William Dhalgren." <g>
That reminds me. Gene Wolfe told me once that Master Ultan was or represented Borges. I have been wondering for a while now if there might not be some other writers encoded in there, and specifically if Baldanders might not be or represent Chip Delany. The notion just won't go away. . .
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes29 Jan 2003, 20:02originalas archived
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Gene Wolfe told me once that Master Ultan was or represented Borges. I have been wondering for a while now if there might not be some other writers encoded in there, and specifically if Baldanders might not be or represent Chip Delany. The notion just won't go away.
H'mmmm. "Baldanders" is from Borges, if I recall correctly ... and there's nothing about him that particularly makes me think of Delany, his fiction or his characters ... Though obviously there's more than Borges to Baldanders; the Doctor reminds us, not very obliquely, that we should also be thinking Frankenstein. So what about Baldanders makes you think Delany?

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