There is a great and deep oceanic mind behind all this, a mind shimmering with intelligence and intuition. There is a soul brimming full of adventure and daring. There is intrigue that boggles belief. Most of all there is a personage who is sometimes a leaping and sounding spirit, and sometimes the Foremost Secret is— The Foremost Secret What? Ah, that too, for the moment, is a secret. — Fair Hills of Ocean, Oh! In the Whole Lafferty are the Oceanic novels, I’ve updated the O

Title page of La relación (1542), reproduced in The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1922). They made their moves in the late hours and reestablished their prestige. They told a series of tales that were quite unusual, and the other liars looked at them with awe and admiration. Due to the peculiar nature of these stories they cannot be given here. There was weird stuff in them, and we haven’t the presence or style of Esteban and Dorantes to carry them off with a fl

So does Hell seem an altogether pleasant place, when it comes with its both hands full of enticements. —Where Have You Been, Sandaliotis? Some interpretations on the blog will seem really out there. I would defend them with confidence, from arguments about being inside a female reproductive system in “Flaming Ducks and Giant Bread” to the reading of “Junkyard Thoughts” as a story about a mental breakdown taking the form of a dissociative episode. However, the interpretation I