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Arrive at Easterwine


Past Master as Conspiracy Novel
The skull of Cardinal John Morton, patron and benefactor of Thomas More "Only a God can save us."— Martin Heidegger, interview with Der Spiegel (1966; published 1976) I have been thinking about something Daniel Otto Jack Petersen recently said: that he found it difficult to get into Lafferty’s Fourth Mansions (1969) because of its conspiratorial theme. Unlike Petersen, I am probably too quick to assume that all social organization is impossible without extensive conspiracy
Dec 12


The Mercurius of Fourth Mansions (1969)
You may already have guessed that I once joined their company. But I was a very recent recruit of theirs and I have broken away. To make...
Sep 21


IIIp Prime and Fourth Mansions
On my reading, Prime in the Oceanic Novels will always be perceptually complicated, so I spent some time in the last few days thinking...
Sep 8


Jun 20


Biddy
And she was into the weave now — pink and pungent — the numinous spook, the cinnamon cookie, the mad anima who had never left off being a...
Jun 13
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