Samuel R. Delany
interview with Terry Bisson in The Atheist in the Attic
You wrote a critical appreciation of SF, the Jewel-Hinged Jaw. […] I don’t recall what the title signified.
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The title was not explained in the book. You just had to recognize it. It was from a line in Thomas M. Disch’s Camp Concentration: from Sacchetti’s poem “The Hierodule,” when Disch describes the black idol of language/knowledge/art, which is presumably suppose to speak the truth:
Behold! Behold the black, untrained flesh,
The jaw’s jewelled hinge that we can barely glimpse …So, no, you probably didn’t and don’t recall what the title signified, unless you’ve been rereading Disch’s novel with your literary antenna alert to explaining precisely that conundrum.
Saccchetti is a character in the novel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Concentration
And the notion of hinge leads me to recall the cover art on Catherine Hume’s Hinges — a grid of representations of various examples of hinges.
With a prominent jaw in its centre square, somewhat shiny like a jewel…
And so for day 2522
08.11.2013