Jon Nelson

It is Sunday, I am relaxing with a Texas red ale, and this is post 400, which seems like as good an occasion as any to say a few personal things about my Lafferty hobby project and where it stands. By my own count, admittedly a heterodox one, there are 265 complete Lafferty short stories. At this point, I have written something about all but three of them. Which means that, for all its obvious flaws, this blog is probably the most comprehensive Lafferty resource online. Anyone interested in...

Idolatry is distinguished from Image-worship by an undue finality. It rests in the relative as though it were the Absolute, worships the creature, the image and vehicle of the Divine Spirit, as though it were that Spirit. — E. I. Watkin, The Bow in the Clouds Here is one of the more complicated clusters in the Lafferty canon: four stories, all published in 1973, that form a sequence within The Men Who Knew Everything . The ongoing Centipede Press edition chose to break them up, a serious...

"I examined the four walls, the carpeted floor, and the ceiling of the room. There are only six interior sides to a regular room like mine, and if they are secure the room should be secure." " . . . my girl friend Rosemary Korff told me, ‘but now you have acquired a mind without boundaries and a personality without a center.’ So I went about fixing drinks and cheeses and taco dips for my guests . . . at my own Party Without Walls." There are so many memorable birds in Lafferty’s work. Some I...