Epikt
Not long ago, someone I respect asked how to use the blog: what to read, where to begin. Now there are more than 500 posts, plus other resources, totaling about 700,000 words. I created Epikt to help readers find their way and, frankly, to remind myself of what I’ve written here.
Epikt is a guide to Lafferty’s writing through my essays on Arrive at Easterwine. You can ask about a story, a character, a difficult passage, or an argument on the blog. It can explain what is going on and connect it with other parts of Lafferty’s work. Its answers reflect the blog’s interpretations, which are always very much open to question. The aim, as always, is to create something to think with or argue against.
Start with a suggested question or write your own. You don’t need to know much about Lafferty to begin. For a more focused answer, plug in the title of a work or paste a passage. Ask follow-up questions: “Give me an example.” “What supports that reading?” “What’s another way to understand it?” “Where is the argument weak?”
Unrelatedly, I’m attaching the latest version of my Okla Hannali notes. I’ll be rereading the novel in the next few weeks, so I’ve tightened them up. It has a chapter-by-chapter commentary, a detailed plot outline, a chronology, family and character tables, a glossary, etc.
