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Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

Samuel R. Delany

Books! Real books were Joneny's delight. Heavy, cumbersome, difficult to store, they were the bane of most scholars. Joneny found them entrancing. He didn't care what was in them. Any book today was so old that each word glittered to him like the facet of a lost gem. The whole conception of a book was so at odds with this compressed, crowded, breakneck era that he was put into ecstasy by the simple heft of the paper. His own collection, some seventy volumes, was considered a pretentious luxury by everyone at the University.

Samuel R. Delany

I must remember my own origins. Once I was as ignorant as you; I swear, though, I can't remember when.

Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

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Born: April 1, 1942 (age 83)

Bio: Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., Chip Delany to his friends, is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes fiction, memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.

Known for:

Dhalgren (1975)
Babel-17 (1966)
The Einstein Intersection (1967)
The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)

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