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From: dyer@harvard.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers,net.motss
Subject: Re: Should book ads disclose sexual slant?
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 20:13:01 EST
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I've just finished the first major section of the book, and perhaps
things might be different later on, but all of the sex so far in this
book, homosex or otherwise, has about as much to do with gay or straight
20th century Earth culture as moon rocks do.  Delaney uses sex just like
any other characteristic as a means to "alienate" the readers from the
characters and the worlds they inhabit.  Whether its the fact that all
the people wear little lozenges over their face or that all the straights
want to get flogged or the fact that our hero likes others of the same sex,
it's all just an example of his maddening arbitrariness.  But to call
this a "gay" novel is ridiculous--as ridiculous as making an issue of
the protagonist's predilections to begin with.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
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