"Stephen" <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> schreef in bericht 
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> Well Thomas you do have good taste in SF. I'm looking forward to your
> depiction of a sensory-syrynx :-) or even Dhalgren <g>
> [snip]
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Thank you Stephen! I am currently re-reading Delany's novels (Babel-17, 
Jewels of Aptor, Einstein Intersection, Fall of the Towers, Dhalgren, Nova), 
at the same time as I am (again) reading Brian Aldiss.
The syrynx is indeed on my wishlist and I have a couple of ideas about it. 
Delany's description is sketchy, but that leaves enough latitude to 
interpretation. The apparent mixture of different instruments (sitar, 
guitar, theremin, harp...) is very exciting.

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> The problem with RL is, it doesn't live up to the imagination. In most
> things SF, artistic licence must be used.
>
Well, both views are correct, I think. RL often doesn't live up to 
imagination when you remember the revelation of the first photographs of 
Jupiter's moons for instance, or the first really close-up photographs of 
Mars. But happily, we are still entitled to artistic licence indeed!! 
However, I think that, unconsciously, I would like to re-create RL in 
POV-Ray!!  :-)

Thomas

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