“Yes, I probably share the same faith. I’m a Catholic, and I’ve always assumed that you were, just from the general tone of you. We have the help of special humor. I’ve always thought that when Christ said ‘Fear not, little flock; it has pleased your Father to give you a Kingdom’ he added in a lower voice ‘only maybe not right now.’ Patience is a great virtue, but it does wear mighty thin sometimes.” — Letter

“The children, Austro and Loretta and Mary (none of them is more than a child or at most an adolescent), are close kindred, closer to each other, perhaps, than to us. It is common, perhaps universal, that children are of a slightly different race (I mean it literally) than they will later become. But it is all right with them.” “When were the several decades left out of United States history, Barnaby?” Cris Benedetti asked him. “Early, and recent, and present, for I rather su

This is a very miscellaneous post about a text I have wanted to write about for a few months: To Aurelia, With Horns . It can hardly be called a version of Aurelia,  but it is a kind of drafting out of ideas that were later repurposed for it, even if 90 percent of those ideas were drained away. There is zero St. Thomas Aquinas here, which will be surprising for anyone who has read Aurelia. Altogether, it is one of the strangest Lafferty documents that I have read. Enough of i