The Men Who Knew Everything

This interactive map links to my posts on the angstrom stories. It shows how Lafferty drew on E. I. Watkin’s The Bow in the Clouds to shape the sequence before departing from Watkin’s scheme. Watkin links colors to forms of knowledge and experience; Lafferty builds stories around them, sometimes following Watkin, sometimes arguing with him. Click a color to explore the stories, read passages from Watkin, and follow my readings of their connections.