hmpf

I think my copy may be missing a page, or a few lines or something. It's kinda hard to tell, because Delany uses sentence fragments a lot anyway, but the semantic "break" between pages 181 and 182 of my edition (the Vintage one with the blue and purple cover, with Empire Star at the back) seems to be bigger and more abrupt than it should be, and also, he usually frames his sentence fragments in dashes and there aren't any dashes here. The last line of page 181 is:

"You are so big inside me I will break. I see the pattern named" (italics in the book)

And the first sentence on page 182 is:

"The criminal and the artistic consciousness meet in the same head with one language between them..."

This is in part four, "The Butcher" - in the second chapter of it.