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[cimorene]

Do you have to create this artificially saturated space in order to deal with sexuality, or can you deal with it in the real world? Can you come out and simply say, "I have a difficult question to ask you: I'd really like to take you back and tie you up and leave small red marks just between your third and fourth vertebrae," and not to be absolutely crushed if you get the somewhat common negative response?

-samuel r. delany, one of the most brilliant writers evah.

could he be cooler? (no.)

Comments

[msilverstar]

Was just thinking that it's time to re-read Delany, with my new slashy perspective. I've been collecting his stuff (my favorite has always been "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones").

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i happen to not have read that one because my parents don't own it. they have such an enormous science fiction library including huge numbers of 'classics' that i feel guilty spending money on new ones when i haven't read what they've got.

[msilverstar]

It's a short story, won a Hugo or a Nebula or both in around 1969 or 70, so it's in a bunch of the anthologies I'm pretty sure your parents have...

[cimness.livejournal.com]

as far as anthologies, we actually have little beyond 'the year's best.' which would mean it would have to be that year, and we don't have such old ones. dad thought we had it, but i couldn't find it. ::shrug:: maybe in a magazine.