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One reason Lafferty appeals to me is his premodern approach to authorial distance. Lafferty (though exceptions do occur). It’s one reason he generally avoids first-person narration. As a result, Lafferty's trickiness arises not from unreliability but from concealment: logogriphs, clever Chapter 4, "People" Lafferty writes flat characters (again, with a handful of exceptions). While "Haruspex" may not be a Lafferty story readers revisit often, it does demonstrate how deeply Aquinas

Usually, it’s Lafferty’s narrator, using his pragmatic marker trick. Lafferty writes: Listen, you high-old-time people, make your wants known now. The answer Lafferty invites is that it will absolutely be destroyed. There is no way Lafferty is not being highly ironic. There, Lafferty is plainly punning on sanctioned  and sanctified .

Second, it may be Lafferty’s first complete treatment of the consensus reality theme. But I see Lafferty’s as a highly integrated if eccentric mind. People had begun to think about all this differently in Lafferty’s lifetime. This modern axiom is one Lafferty had a complicated relationship with. This is the very space where Lafferty’s "Dream World" begins and ends.

I keep playing around with the idea that Harry Stephen Keeler’s webwork might help understand what Lafferty What I have done is use ideas about Lafferty and world-creation to build a model that tracks causality You can find it on the bar, along with the new Lafferties section, which includes a trivia game.

What did Lafferty know about this? I worked through probable Lafferty sources, but I lean toward the second. The term belongs to the same popular New Age spirituality Lafferty is satirizing. It would be interesting to know what Lafferty himself thought of Erasmus. I suspect Lafferty's view was complicated.

I’ve been working on Okla Hannali and thinking about Lafferty's first draft in ‘63. It’s usually said, based on what Lafferty himself disclosed in interviews, that the novel draws heavily Given Lafferty’s Irish heritage and his deep interest in Choctaw and Irish history, it seems plausible While the novel is largely built from oral histories, important sources such as John Swanson, and personal

“Faith Sufficient” is a late sequel to Lafferty’s 1959 short story “John Salt,” though—true to Lafferty In "John Salt," Lafferty took aim at hellfire-and-brimstone preaching and fraudulent miracle-working. Whether or not Lafferty read Knox—and smart money would say he did— enthusiasm brings the story into Of course, Lafferty admired some ecstatics. One often sees it said that Lafferty was a serious Catholic and theologically literate.

“The Forty-Seventh Island” is one of Lafferty’s weaker stories. They are the kinds of suspicion Lafferty sees as stripping the cosmos of sacrament. So what is this worldview in Lafferty’s mind? Lafferty’s complaint, as usual, is that such things displace transcendence. Lafferty often flips the profane into the sacred.

Crucially for Lafferty, the place is located underwater. Lafferty then does something interesting. No writer before Lafferty suggests anything about good magicians. This seems to be pure Lafferty. Why does Lafferty do this? Lafferty may not have shared that view.

Lafferty Someday we will have a complete English edition of Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods   One reason Lafferty fascinates me because of his deep, almost instinctive grasp of the odd, intricate If Lafferty often criticized the goldsmithing of others, we should consider how he worked his own. If Lafferty’s gold has already been purified and remade, a critical re-melt carries the risk of turning flesh by a blind adherence to the letter." — On Christian Doctrine , III.5 One challenge in reading Lafferty

Over the last year of reading Lafferty, I’ve repeatedly found myself adjusting my assumptions about what Lafferty (he was, weirdly, O’Connor’s senior), O’Connor, and Tartt: three prickly southern Catholics. Finally, the influence of Origen on Lafferty was deeper and more enduring than I had realized. It sent me back to Origen, and, again, it is a sad fact that a catalogue of Lafferty’s library was not Lafferty was the product of an Augustinian formation impressed by Leonine neo-scholasticism, and this

Not infrequently, it is Lafferty. So Lafferty gives him what he wants. The synthetic and needled clarity is devastating. And this is how Lafferty says, “Choose.” Thomas, Lafferty liked to call the procession of the creatures. “Fog In My Throat” ranks among Lafferty’s finest short stories.