No, I haven't broken my good resolution to stop writing. I finished the story Flaming Arrow on January 8, 1982. This was quite a while before November 7, 1984 (my 70th birthday) when I swore off writing. The book in which this appeared (Magic in Ithkar #2) had its first printing in December 1985 and was copyrighted by Andre Norton and Robert Adams in 1985. — Letter, 1987 “I’m impressed by your irrationality. It’s beyond anything I ever met with in my own time. I’m impressed b

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 want to look at how masterfully it complicates narrative technique. To get a grip on the story, I think we need to X-ray it. I’ll begin with its diegetic protocols, the rules governing its narrative levels. Here are the terms as I’ll use them: Dieg