Some advanced Lafferty. I find Not to Mention Camels a hard book. Its components are easy enough to understand, but understanding what...

“I am ancient Og who rode the ridgepole of the ark all through the deluge, and who held the umbrella over the ark.”— Not to Mention Camels (1976) [Noah] was a Magician even as I am. Is that scrap of a tale in the folk tales you've examined?” — "The Man Who Lost His Magic" “Og, the giant, was a descendent of one of the fallen angels. He lived for many, many years. At the time of the flood, he came to Noah and asked him to admit him into the ark. One look at his gigantic statu

“The faith to move mountains is not an empty sophistry, not a hollow vessel of speech,” said Joshua.“There is a power, and we live by...

"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" “The eyes of it were the last remnant of the real Pilgrim, and now they’re dead.” The other day, I posted...

William Blake, The Red Dragon and the Woman Wrapped in the Sun, c. 1805 My last post looked at Lafferty's aesthetics and theology in...

Picking up on yesterday’s post and the theme of Gnosticism, I want to look at its presence in Lafferty’s work a little further. Lafferty...

Lafferty’s description and visual imagery are as idiosyncratic as every other aspect of the man's work. Today, I want to consider a trick...

"I am a very disordered and very often a very bad man, but I know that there is this clarity and order and certainty: the Procession of...