jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (11/08/84)
Just a note here...
In all the talk lately about Ellison, I'm a little surprised that nobody
has mentioned _A Boy and His Dog_. Ellison's strengths are at their best
in that one with the offbeat-but-deep friendship, and the gross violence
that he does to the "Hollywood Happy Ending" is in the league with
Blazing Saddles' assault on western cliches.
At the same, Ellison's scary side comes across, too. If the sex of the
characters had been reversed, I would have been hard put to keep my mind on
the statement being made about friendship and priorities. Ellison has a fine
eye for where you can be jerked into "Wait a minute, thats US he's talking
about". He probably does us a subtle service by making us face our own
pavlovian conditioning, but I would appreciate some help in the struggle,
instead of just being thrown in.
Foo, Im rambling on.....
"Well I aint often right, but I've never been wrong;
You know it seldom works out the way it does in a song"
--
Dr Memory
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