Aug 012009
I heard that Samuel Delany once proposed a sentence that meant two different things depending on whether it was in a Scifi story or not. The sentence was “He turned on his left side.”
Can anyone give me a citation? Or an indication that this is apocryphal?
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I found at least two interviews with Delaney where he brings up that phrase.
http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/interviews/delany42interview.htm
http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/delany52interview.htm
He seems to have been using that phrase, along with “her world exploded,” at least since 1983, if not earlier.
Woot. My Google-fu turned up nothing earlier. Thanks!