>Yes, Delany's got it dead on...and proved it time and time >again...especially in his novel Triton. >-Gerald and for poets, Gerald, his non-SF novella, 'Atlantis 1924' in _Atlantis: Three tales_ is an amazing 'modernist' work, in which 'mongrel Manhattan' of the 1920s features, & also Hart Crane. It's a stunning piece of fiction... Doug Douglas Barbour Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm Cinder of the lexical drift. Susan Howe