Continuing in the series of improbable interviews (see Fortean Times’ talk with Iain Sinclair to which I blinked below), The Onion interviews Samuel Delaney, another of my cultural heroes, on the occasion of the reissue of his 1974 masterpiece Dhalgren.

O: Should readers be trying to solve it?

SRD: No, no. I want people to… What do I want? I don’t really want people to do anything. People can read the book any

way they want. If they want to look for answers, fine. I have no idea whether they’ll find them. I assume they’ll find some,

and probably won’t find others. Dhalgren is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried

to put as much into it as I could at the time.