frugal: dialogue followed by speechifying, two locations, with an in-between arrival and withdrawal of horse-drawn The scientists climb into what are horse-drawn buggies and carriages and ride away, full of “high amusement

Born into a political family, he “was given the names to please as many groups as possible.”

Years (1917–1923) Eleven of Duffey's twelve primary human persons (Animated Marvels) were conceived and born Duffey himself acknowledged he "should have been horse-whipped for such things."

It reminds the Lafferty reader of the duty to be happy within historical constraints (Aurelia) and to

, the love-wood, the Burning Bush; insufferable elegants who take it as high as it will humanly go, Corn

But just as seeing the horse as a prehistoric prodigy ultimately led back to, and not away from, an admiration stag when he swings his head clean round and noses towards his tail, an action familiar enough in the horse

Born with a red noose that marks him for martyrdom, he is hanged on a gibbet, a tree, and is prophesied What readers get is a kind of War in Heaven, in which a propagandized Morning Star is a martyr defying

It is believed that they steamed out on the morning dew and were stranded when the dew dispersed. Lafferty’s vessels move through morning moisture and become stranded when it disappears. Cervical mucus has become morning dew, spermatozoa have become riverboats, and the reproductive tract From Exodus and Numbers come the quails, morning dew, manna, and bread from heaven. From St. Lafferty plays directly with the promised land’s milk and honey when Amor serves heifer milk and wasp and hornet

I covered these with horse and wagon through late summer, fall, and early winter.

stars in their courses; or the earth, or the sea, teeming with incipient life, to replace, as it is born

The world Epikt is born into is already a parody, a state disconnected from its primary truth. I dreamed of them before I was born, pieces of broken eggshell millions of parsecs long.”

Dordogne figure that Enniscorthy Sweeny alludes to in his 1916 essay, is Salvador Dalí (born in 1904) The paintings are of the early mornings, so shadows are thrown in contradictory directions from dawn It is in the early mornings that these proto-beasts are as flat and limp as melted paper, for it is then