“Myself, I suspect it’s a kind of madness: the madness that makes one repeat whatever one is trained to repeat.”

— Samuel R. Delany , book Neveryóna

Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 12, “Of Models, Monsters, Night, and the Numinous” (p. 367)

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American author, professor and literary critic 1942

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