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How Samuel Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw Revealed My Shaky Grasp Of The Workings Of My Own Mind
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How Samuel Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw Revealed My Shaky Grasp Of The Workings Of My Own Mind

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Naomi K
Aug 28, 2010
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I just finished reading The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction by Samuel Delany and…I don’t know what to think. Oh, I don’t mean that I don’t know what to think about the book. The book is great.

I mean that generally speaking, I don’t know what to think. Maybe it’s more accurate to say that I don’t know how to think.

About two yea…

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