I have a friend who refuses to read anything by John Varley, because Varley wrote “Titan” and that sounds like “Triton” which Delany wrote…and my friend hates Delany that damn badly!
Of course you keep “losing” it. You haven’t read it. But your subconscious is telling you that you MUST read it, which is why you can’t sell it. But you can’t read it, because something depicted on the cover reminds you of your mother, doesn’t it, Bosda?
Read the book; we’ll discuss your reaction to it next week.
There must be a word for this, or if not someone should make one up. It’s like your car making some kind of noise, except it won’t do it when you bring it into the shop. Then you drive home and it happens again. Or what happens when I can’t find one of my tools, I’ll have to go get another glass cutter and when I come home to put the new one away I find the old one.
Law of Irony? It always rains just after you’ve washed your car – except it doesn’t work if you are trying to make it rain. The gods are not so easily fooled.
Well, it appears that the main theme of the book is that perceptions are altered by language. So perhaps it can only be found by people who have read it and thus had their perceptions altered by its language?
For some reason, I got the idea that he was dead, and then recently I was reading a conversation between him and another writer, and was surprised he was alive.
I started to say that he’s become a poltergeist haunting you, and then I remembered that he might not be dead.
So, I don’t know, maybe I was just thinking of someone else & got confused, or maybe Delany is like a Schroedinger’s Cat. Are there any other Chip Delany stories that have that strange quality?
