phil@nte-scg.UUCP (Phil Trubey) (08/13/85)
>> Don't ask me why. Either Delany dislikes his hands, he knows someone >> with disfigured hands, or it's some literary >> allusion I don't understand. > Here's my frivolous literary theory of the week > A deformity of the hands could symbolize > powerlessness -- an inability to "handle" the world or some part of > it. That fits with Nova, at least. Actually that would also fit with _Triton_ ... although I can't really remember if the protaganist's hands in the story were disfigured. While on the subject of hands, in both _The_Einstein_Intersection_ and _Triton_, a current dress fashion is to have your hands incased in tiny cages. -- Phil Trubey Northern Telecom Electronics Ltd. Ottawa, Ontario Mail path: ...!bnr-vpa!nte-scg!phil
crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) (08/22/85)
In article <125@nte-scg.UUCP> phil@nte-scg.UUCP (Phil Trubey) writes: > >> Here's my frivolous literary theory of the week >> A deformity of the hands could symbolize >> powerlessness -- an inability to "handle" the world or some part of >> it. That fits with Nova, at least. > >Actually that would also fit with _Triton_ ... although I can't really >remember if the protaganist's hands in the story were disfigured. > >While on the subject of hands, in both _The_Einstein_Intersection_ and >_Triton_, a current dress fashion is to have your hands >incased in tiny cages. > Wow. I wish I were in an English class (grad students don't get to take English classes unless they are English grad students.) This could make a term paper! -- Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)