Past Master Puzzles

A Past Master exam for the hardcore Lafferty reader. All gnawing questions I keep going back to.

1. Why does Pottscamp stutter?

2. What is the structural role of the boy with the toy?

3. Who is the false ansel?

4. Why is the Ouden passage dream delayed?

5. What is the relation of Adam to Athens and Jerusalem?

6. Why did Cathead only appear twenty years ago?

7. Who is the stranger at the end of the novel?

8. Who are the time travelers who visited Thomas More before Paul, and why did they do it?

9. What is the relationship of Astrobe to the Golden Bowl in Fourth Mansions?

10. How does the surveillance and information economy on Astrobe really work, given the nature of the Nine?