My preferred way of understanding the mechanics of this story is through Northrop Frye’s idea that modes

Brannagan prefers the new arrangement, with Quasimodo taking so much work off his hands.

Stephen prefers to “break up sensations into their component parts,” hearing the music of her arrival

I understand why many people find this too unspeakably absurd and prefer to retreat into other kinds

My preferred way of rereading it is out of order.

They summarily execute a passenger for expressing a preference for the change.

carnivalesque in Lafferty, I’ve argued that Bakhtin’s ideas are of limited use, and this episode shows why I prefer

inhabitants of Black Cathead reject Astrobe and choose suffering, because relative dehumanization is preferable

Kudu Ben Kutz: A Kurd formerly of the Arc on Ararat; prefers Caribbean treasure hunting. B.