![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like any intersectional project, Tales of Neveryon presents a number of characters and storylines that work through complex social systems, illuminating the ‘knot’ that does not always clearly represent a ‘pattern’. This passage from the end of Tales of Neveryon encapsulates, for me, the intersecting stories that both single out and complicate Delaney’s interest with capital and money, gender and sexuality, race, and systems of domination. And yet…’ He turn the astrolabe over …there will not clear in my mind to any such pattern!’” (242). “’It is as though-‘ Gorgik held up the verdisgrised disk with its barbarous chasings-‘all these things would come together in a logical patter, immensely complex and greatly beautiful, tying together slave and empress, commoner and lord-even gods and demons-to show how all are related in a negotiable pattern, like some sailor’s knot, not yet pulled taut, but laid out on the dock in loose loops, so that simply to see it in such form were to comprehend it even when yanked tight. ![]()
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