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  • Gnostic Lafferty

    Some contemporaries referred to Cathars and other dualists as “Manichees,” explicitly linking them to Many academic publications now avoid the term “Gnosticism” in their titles, preferring to speak of, say

  • "Ishmael Into the Barrens" (1969/1971)

    We find here references to Moses’ encounters with God at Sinai (Exodus 19:16–19) and to the burning bush

  • Kabbala and "In the Turpentine Trees" (1982/1983)

    Though their authors are unknown, these texts were pseudepigraphically ascribed to revered sages (like Formative Texts (1st–8th centuries):   An important early mystical work is Sefer Yetzirah (“Book of Sefer Yetzirah stands as “proto-Kabbalah”: it significantly influenced later Kabbalists with concepts By the 14th–15th centuries, Kabbalah (centered on study of the Zohar and Sefer Yetzirah ) had spread Even in areas like modern psychology and literature, one finds references to Kabbalah (e.g.

  • "Puddle on the Floor" (1976)

    require decoding because he is so learned, and some stories are built to be solved: they are densely referential

  • 10 Misc Laff: Goethe's "Erlkönig"

    I prefer it to Scott's "Or else, silly child, I will drag thee away,” Scott’s version of Goethe’s “And

  • Consensus Reality III

    Think of a spreadsheet whose every cell is a formula referencing A1: the sheet's contents are fully determined

  • Martin Heidegger and Past Master

    relation between technology and nature , largely decoupled from the Thomistic tradition in which I prefer

  • "The Man With the Aura" (1961/1974)

    A duck will even come to the artificial call in preference to the real, if the artificial is made with a collective “we,” observing Thomas Castlereagh’s “august hands,” gives us a society conditioned to prefer

  • “Calamities of the Last Pauper” (1982)

    elementals, principalities, specially-impressed mortals, and God himself) would automatically have preference I would have preferred fire to ice. Current notes:

  • The Bloodsmell

    Many readers would prefer to do the same.

  • "Hog-Belly Honey" (1961/1965)

    Joe names it the Hog-Belly Honey, while Maurice prefers a Greek name, the Pantophag. m sure it is because what others delight in—the fun with language—gets in the way of the Lafferty I prefer

  • "Chombo" (1958)

    "I don’t believe I’ll fight in the states any more," Chombo says, preferring to "stay down here in the

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