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odditycollector Feb. 18th, 2005 09:05 pm)
odditycollector Feb. 18th, 2005 09:05 pm)Neil Gaiman is a slasher.
Rereading the book recently as an adult I found it still as beautiful, still as strange; I discovered passages - particularly toward the twisty end - that had once been opaque were now quite clear. Truth to tell, I now found Lo Lobey an unconvincing heterosexual: while the book is certainly a love story, I found myself reading it as the story of Lobey's courtship by Kid Death, and wondering about Lobey's relationships with various other members of the cast. He is an honest narrator, reliable to a point, but he has been to the city after all, and it has left its mark on his narrative.
-From Neil Gaiman's Forward for the 1998 edition of
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
Rereading the book recently as an adult I found it still as beautiful, still as strange; I discovered passages - particularly toward the twisty end - that had once been opaque were now quite clear. Truth to tell, I now found Lo Lobey an unconvincing heterosexual: while the book is certainly a love story, I found myself reading it as the story of Lobey's courtship by Kid Death, and wondering about Lobey's relationships with various other members of the cast. He is an honest narrator, reliable to a point, but he has been to the city after all, and it has left its mark on his narrative.
-From Neil Gaiman's Forward for the 1998 edition of
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
