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Here’s Lafferty putting him on blast. Lafferty loves to do this, sometimes far more subtly.

Gnosticism mattered deeply to Lafferty. But Lafferty’s interest was not limited to Gnosticism. Lafferty tells us it is written in Old Spanish and Hebrew characters. Lafferty ends by saying the head being stretched could be your own. Lafferty turns it into a grubby tram system.

As far as the Lafferty fan community goes, this game is all but done. Lafferty  (2021) tried to play the game well and screwed it up by not tapping into the fan community. Of course, I see why "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" is considered one of Lafferty’s best and most memorable But if people asked me what to read to get to know Lafferty, they’d run up against my nasty case of not wanting to play the “Best of” version of the how-to-introduce-people-to-Lafferty game.

I was surprised to discover that Lafferty had rewritten the movie. This is where Lafferty most clearly echoes The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance . Perhaps that’s because it’s easy to overlook how brilliantly Lafferty has inverted its structure. Lafferty rewrites the American myth of the West, taking it straight out of John Ford’s hands and re-enchanting When Lafferty's novel ends, he has completely solved The Stoddard Problem .

What makes “Interurban Queen” so remarkable, though, is the incredible tonal balance with which Lafferty — Sheryl Smith, "Lafferty’s Short Stories: Some Mystagogic Goshwow" A few times in his work, Lafferty I recommend it highly to Lafferty fans. It’s one of my favorite Lafferty stories. was about to become the Lafferty we know.

“Old Foot Forgot” is, like much of Lafferty’s work, a funny, strange, and poignant philosophical tale Here, Lafferty takes aim at the fashionable spiritual syntheses of his time, filtered through writers The aliens are spheres, symbolizing wholeness and cosmic unity. Lafferty’s running “salve” motif carries Catholic overtones—think chrism/oil of the sick and even a punny

Another of Lafferty’s parables about being and nothingness. in 1962 and then reworked, making it one of the first instances of privation as hungry maw, a major Lafferty It says that while men are mortal, it will always need a partner. This is a primitive version of the privation trope that Lafferty will explore until he ceases writing I suspect that is one of Lafferty’s etymological games just as KLM is, for KLM looks like an Hebraic

question Chris Merrick asked on East of Laughter , I’ve been cataloguing the changes made when moving Lafferty's One significant, if minor, persistent change is Lafferty’s correction regarding Australopithecus , which I’m curious whether Lafferty caught this himself or if someone pointed it out to him, and whether that

A Past Master exam for the hardcore Lafferty reader. All gnawing questions I keep going back to.

Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny , consensus reality appears as a centralized construct, and Lafferty As he often does, I think Lafferty draws on 1 Enoch for some of his weirder ideas. in reality ("full of holes since the minute we made it"), reflect these sources. And the strange figure of “Haziel,” whose name recurs, is not incidental. The packages show how consensus reality can be made to cohere, at least for a while.

Chapters in a Lafferty novel are always half misleading because he thinks in subchapters, episodes that They are devils—but devils in Lafferty are tricky things. This approach reflects a view that Lafferty put in the following way: “Leaving aside all testimony of Lafferty even defines their three functions, which is under-discussed. Lafferty refuses to do this. Instead, he steps back.

problems to be examined without asking students to begin from the theological commitments within which Lafferty another way of revealing and presencing ( Anwesen ) beyond Gestell , beyond late-modernity, which in Lafferty thinking on Gestell  is inseparable from his disastrous attempt to think from within the prewar moment; Lafferty