Advanced Lafferty. “Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies” is the only short story by Lafferty with the complexity of his most difficult novels. In the coming days, I’ll write several posts about it and share my notes. Today, I’ll look at its narrative technique. To get a grip on the story, I think we need to X-ray it. I’ll begin with its narrative levels, using these terms: Diegetic: The primary narrative level. In “Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies,” this is the