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Dahlia's Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction
Detectives are investigating the death of Dahlia Winter's husband and also looking into the mysterious deaths of young boys who are imported for labor in a future-time San Francisco. Citing the plots of
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
,
Terminator 2
, and
Blade Runner
as proof that our sense of inner and outer is tied to rebellion and slavery, the novel appears at first to be
...more
Paperback
,
230 pages
Published
October 1st 2003
by Fiction Collective 2
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A fiction and autobiography through seeing. What is seen through
characters and self, through the iris. "To write a text that is sight, without sound even--as if it could be only the sight of events." Scalapino writes of a society that has only virtuality, having only the "now" of perception. We are becoming only pod-people, or replicants. Memories are inserted.
"'I am the business' is said by the replicant who learns her identity having thought she was human (in Blade Runner). 'Not recognizing t ...more
characters and self, through the iris. "To write a text that is sight, without sound even--as if it could be only the sight of events." Scalapino writes of a society that has only virtuality, having only the "now" of perception. We are becoming only pod-people, or replicants. Memories are inserted.
"'I am the business' is said by the replicant who learns her identity having thought she was human (in Blade Runner). 'Not recognizing t ...more
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