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Lafferty’s short sentences fascinate me. There is a smart essay online that argues Lafferty breaks the rules by telling instead of showing. Lafferty shows by telling: he uses what Virginia Tufte, in Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style , calls One of Lafferty’s signature moves as a writer is to build short sentences using expressive fragmentation They serve as isolating maneuvers that Lafferty uses to build linguistically charged moments of intense

Some notes on Lafferty's planets, especially for those new to Lafferty. Lafferty won't give you anything like that. At some point, Lafferty decided to patch together a universe—one that, to my eye, first really comes Lafferty’s version of planetary romance is to reimagine the Garden of Eden as a con job on the un-catechized In Lafferty’s approach to planetary science fiction, there isn't much concern for seamless canon.

About Lafferty’s Holocaust denial, I want to be on record with maximum clarity. Lafferty was a literary genius of unparalleled imagination and insight. R.A. Lafferty was a crank on aspects of conspiratorial history who embraced a grotesque and evil lie. Like Blake, Lafferty has a cosmological imagination. Like Blake, Lafferty was an enemy of Ulro.

Having read more Lafferty than anyone else, he brings an unparalleled knowledge of the Lafferty archive On Omitting the “Only Valid Environment” Ferguson’s discussion of Lafferty underplays Lafferty’s insistence On Lafferty as the “Toughest Critic” Ferguson describes Lafferty’s collaborative invitation to fellow Ferguson's Application of Ricoeur to Lafferty He follows Ricoeur by saying Lafferty’s “prefigured” background Lafferty’s Theological Non-Negotiable I also think that for Lafferty, the Incarnation (Redemption) is

The Reefs of Earth (1968) Reading large chunks of Lafferty is anything but straightforward. This method has served me well in studying Lafferty, though it has led to some unexpected consequences—chief Using an Arabian Nights folklore index while reading Lafferty's Sindbad  sparked a question: what if there were a Lafferty motif index? Still, I’d love to see a proper Lafferty motif index—and I might try again.

Sheryl Smith did not write much about Lafferty, but everything she wrote is worth looking at closely.

In a Green Tree I continue to reflect on Belloc and to think about the nature of Lafferty's antisemitism Here is how I currently situate Lafferty: Category Manifestation Placement & Explanation I. While I can reconstruct some of Lafferty’s views, extending from antiquity through the Dreyfus Affair Lafferty's views fit squarely with this category. While not a member of a formal movement like SSPX, Lafferty's antisemitism is deeply intertwined with

In the end, his corpus as a whole gave off a sense of teasing incompletion and of secrecy: almost as Imagine I am new to Lafferty. Lafferty used more than nine hundred sources while writing The Fall of Rome , yet he took great care There is the centripetal Lafferty and the centrifugal Lafferty. totality comes from: (a) this genuine cross-text architecture, plus (b) the fact that only part of the whole

That's the idea of a whole Lafferty that unshackles Lafferty from being a quirky sf/fantasy writer I call the default Lafferty the weird O. Henry of SF and the cotton-candy Okie. As Lafferty readers know, Lafferty's novel-writing career divides into phases that very loosely track It completes the very important Coscsuin sequence that must come out for there to be anything like a Whole Lafferty.

Lafferty. His sentences are unmistakably his own, his plots dizzying. how much did Lafferty himself share this view? I do think this gets Lafferty backward. If Lafferty is obscure, it is not because he is an obscurantist. There, Lafferty writes of Izzie: He got his car and was on his way.

Lafferty makes an exceptionally strong claim here. slightly, from Lafferty’s sacramental worldview to his sacramental poesis. This is also why Lafferty immediately brings in the Four Final Things. This is a constant theme in Lafferty. This is why, when a world ends in Lafferty, it isn’t a complete reset.

Lafferty's Media Thinking and Its Influences In most of Lafferty’s media thinking, there is significant Lafferty must have been aware of their work. Lafferty writes that they are killed by mortal hatred for one another. Projection in Lafferty's Work One of the more intriguing examples of this in Lafferty is Doctor Fritz Lafferty's media-focused stories continually return to this problem.