A reading by Kenneth James produced a dozen pages of incredibly helpful notes, as well as numerous marginal comments, which I have tried to address.
“The Gift Must Move”—the motto of the Gilead Elementary School—is from Lewis Hyde’s luminous study, The Gift. My gratitude to Ron Drummond for returning it to my attention, twenty-five years after my first reading, and indeed for all Ron’s active enthusiasm for life, literature, music, biblical history and science. His help as always has been tireless, wise, and invaluable. The sign in the Gilead island graveyard is, of course, a quotation from Andrew Holleran’s award-winning novel, Grief.
Also, of course, thanks to my agent Henry Morrison and my publisher and editor, Don Weise, without whom, and against truly overwhelming odds, no one would have had a chance to read it.
Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
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