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A T L A N T I S [3.81.30.41] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:44 GMT) This page intentionally left blank BOOKS BY SAMUEL R. DELANY FICTION The Jewels of Aptor The Fall of the Towers The Ballad of Beta-2 Babel-i; Empire Star The Einstein Intersection Nova Equinox Dhalgren Trouble on Triton Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Return to Neveryon: Tales of Neveryon Nevcryona Flight from Neveryon Return to Neveryon They Fly at Ciron The Mad Man Atlantis: Three Tales H°gg Bread & Wine (graphic novel, drawn by Mia Wolff) Aye, and Gomorrah (stories) Phallos Dark Reflections NONFICTION The Jewel-Hinged Jaw The American Shore Heavenly Breakfast Starboard Wine The Motion of Light in Water The Straits of Messina Silent Interviews Longer Views Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Shorter Views 1984: Selected Letters About Writing [3.81.30.41] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:44 GMT) This page intentionally left blank Atlantis THREE TALES SamuelR. Delany 'Wesleyan University '•Press MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT [3.81.30.41] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:44 GMT) Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut 06459 Copyright © 1995 by Samuel R. Delany All rights reserved Produced by Incunabula, Post Office Box 31626, Seattle, WA 98103-1626 A limited first edition of Atlantis: Three Tales was published by Incunabula in May 1995. Excerpts from an earlier version of Atlantis:Model 1924 first appeared in two issues of The Kenyan Review, Fall 1993 (Vol. xv, No. 4) and Fall 1994 (Vol.xvi, No. 4). Excerpts from an earlier version of "Eric, Gwen, and D. H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling" first appeared in Callaloo, Spring 1991, Vol. 14, No. 2. Excerpts from an earlier version of "Citre et Trans" first appeared in Pacific Review (Spring 1991) and Fiction International'#22 (Spring 1992). The author extends his warmest thanks to editor Ron Drummond and book designer John D. Berry;to Edward Brunner for Crane and train lore; and to Frank Robinson and Bill Blackbeard for sharing their expertise on '205 pulp magazines and record players. Cover art: The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted, 1920-22: The White Way I, by Joseph Stella, Collection of The Newark Museum. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 L I B R A R Y OF CONGRESS C A T A L O G i N G - I N - P U B L I C A T I O N DATA Delany, Samuel R. Atlantis: three tales / Samuel R. Delany p. m. Contents: Atlantis —Eric, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence's esthetic of unrectified feeling — Citre et trans. ISBN 0-8195-5283-6 i. Title PS3554.E437A85 1995 813'.54 — dc2o 94-48726 For Iva Hacker-Delany, John R. Keene, Jr., and Dennis Rickett [3.81.30.41] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:44 GMT) This page intentionally left blank All the little household gods Have started crying, but say Good-bye now, and put to sea. Farewell, dear friend, farewell... — w. H. AUDEN, "Atlantis" The long shadow thrown from this single obstruction to its own light! Thought flies out from the old scars of the sea as if to land. Flocks that are longings come in to shake over the deep water. It's prodigies held in time's amber old destructions and the theme of revival the heart asks for. The past and future are full of disasters, splendors shaken to earth, seas rising to overshadow shores and roaring in. — ROBERT DUNCAN, "Atlantis" [3.81.30.41] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:44 GMT) This page intentionally left blank ...