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What About Bagels?
Lign in drerd un bakn baygl! There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance. There is a growing tendency to Jewish monopoly over the stage for instance, the fruit trade in London, and to a great extent the tobacco trade. There is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease. —Hilair
Sep 22


03 Worldwide Laff: Russia
The main challenge for a newcomer wishing to visit the "reactor" is the regimen. The event lasts three days. The organizers recommend preparing for around-the-clock work, just like in science fiction writer Raphael Lafferty's short story "The Long Night From Tuesday to Wednesday." The goal of the all-night vigil is the same as in the story—to live several lives in one night. At the same time, the designers of the "knowledge reactor" immediately disclaimed responsibility for t
Sep 15


09 Misc Laff: Oddments
When the Abebaios Block (the Hesitation Block) had been removed from most human minds (usually by simple childhood metasurgery), people began to make decisions faster, and often better. The "Block" had been a mental stutter. When it was understood what it was, and that it had no useful function, it was done away with. And individuals sharpened up as if they had been gone over by a honing stone. Future readers are lucky that so much of Lafferty’s writing process survives, thou
Mar 28


"Slow Tuesday Night" (1964/1965)
When the Abebaios block had been removed from human minds, people began to make decisions faster, and often better. It had been the mental stutter. . . . Transportation and manufacturing had then become practically instantaneous. Things that had once taken months and years now took only minutes and hours. A person could have one or several pretty intricate careers within an eight-hour period. It had been a slow Tuesday night. A few hundred new products had run their course on
Nov 29, 2025
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