"This is power politics," Julius Brass explained it to James Tyrone. (They still talked together sometimes.) "I don't look like a Jew. I'm tow-haired and light-skinned and pug-nosed and freckle-faced. I'm an Anglo if there ever was one. And since my father changed the name from Messing to Brass we don't even sound Jewish. The kids don't recognize hardly any of us as Jews. But they know the niggers when they see them. And they know the Catholics because they go to the Catholic

“I'm going to invent a cogitational meter later today,”  Mary Mystic said, “to demonstrate that people are thinking more and deeper and straighter and with more invention, now that the several  ‘Flatland Decades’ are over with and the mountains are generating again.” — In a Green Tree, Part 5 God promised neither the Golden Apes nor the Whales to be successors to Man, nor did He promise Man that he would have no successor. Inneall’s Ocean is only about ten thousand square mil

Lafferty’s In a Green Tree  contains the titles of many works and makes allusions to others. Here is a partial Green Tree  reading list:...