There may have been those
who wished to enter that city,
having glimpsed it in the distance,
but who found themselves baffled,
and turned back. Many others,
myself included, rounded a corner
one day and found it spread before
them, a territory of inexpressible
possibilities, a place remembered
from no dream at all. We would find
that there were rules there as well,
but they would be different rules.
Excerpt of William Gibson's
foreword to the 2001 edition of
Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren →