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But at the center of the changeover there is a period-whether it be a moment’s vision or a year-long suspicion-where the maturing youth sees all adult behavior as merely formal and totally meaningless. Delany (Delany’s current short story collection that’s still in print.) Warning: This column contains spoilers. Various cultures make the transition at various ages, which transition period lasts for varying lengths of time, one accomplishing it in a week with careful dances, ancient prayers, and isolate and specified rituals another, letting it take its own course, offering no help for it, and allowing it to run on frequently for years. Adulthood is that time in which we see that all human actions follow forms, whether well or badly, and it is the perseverance of the forms that is, whether for better or worse, their meaning. The Star Pits (bound with Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo by John Varley), Tor Books, 1989. According to Delany’s own notes : In early spring of ’67, when I was living intermittently with Marilyn on East 10th Street, I received a phone call from someone who said he was Baird SearlesDrama and Literature Director for WBAI-FM. „Childhood is that time in which we never question the fact that every adult act is not only an autonomous occurrence in the universe, but that it is also filled, packed, overflowing with meaning, whether that meaning works for ill or good, whether the ill or good is or is not comprehended. Delany himself collected The Star Pit in his great first collection Driftglass, and in a later collection, Aye, and Gomorrah.