Finished #Dhalgren
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“I live in one city…Maybe you live in another. In mine, time...leaks…In your city, you're sane and I'm crazy…Because you keep telling me things are happening that don't fit with what I see…Some guy with a gun? In the park…I don't know if I want to live in yours!"
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“Arthur goes out there, every day…Then he comes home…Do you know, I don't believe all that out there is real. Once the smoke covers him, I don't believe he goes anywhere. I don't believe there's anyplace to go…I don't think I believe there ever was.”
One of favorite genres of literature is “I Don’t Know What the Fuck is Happening Here.” #BookSky #SamuelRDelany #Dhalgren #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #literaryfiction
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she asked, "when they got the first astronauts to the moon…next time…you looked up and saw the moon in the sky instead of on television…I realized that for the last fifty thousand science-fiction novels it had still been just a light hanging up there…now it was...a place."
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Last page
“But I still hear them walking in the trees; not speaking. Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland and into the hills, I have come….”
“…to wound the autumnal city.”
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TO WOUND THE AUTUMNAL city.
So howled out for the world to give him a name.
The in-dark answered with wind.
All you know I know….
If anyone was to make #Dhalgren into a movie, you could do this with one (or more) of the low quality AI video generators to let the strange non-solid quality of the generated video sell the weird unreal dreamlike quality of the book. Save $ on the SFX to hire some good VA's to do the acting.
Just finished Samuel Delaney’s ‘Dhalgren.’ Someone commiserate with me.
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Dhalgren, by Samuel R Delany, cover.
Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany.
is a masterpiece of experimental fiction. broke so many rules, then re-made them into its own image. i have so many unread books, that i hesitate to re-read one. but i may cave and do this one again...has been on my mind lately.
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23 de septiembre de 2023
–Delany, S. (2001). Dhalgren. pp. 772-773.
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Cover of Samuel R Delany's sci-fi novel Dhalgren depicting a large orange orb (moon? sun?) Looming over decrepit cityscape.
Reading #Dhalgren and… surprisingly readable, interesting and feels prescient…. I am so scared I wouldn’t get it… magical realism scares me but this seems goos
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