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Advanced Lafferty. Active, Not Passive: Lafferty calls him a "vortex." This makes him volitional and predatory.

The Extradiegetic Frame: The 1970s/80s Narrator and the Chestnut Roaster Lafferty begins with contemporaneity Lafferty doesn’t give us much information about this narrator, but whoever it is addresses us from “outside “Slow Light” & “Ghostliness” as Diegetic Mechanisms Lafferty being Lafferty, he turns it all up. Lafferty is suspending us in a half-finished intradiegetic space. Lafferty writes, “there seemed to be several meetings in this room superimposed on one another.” B.

While enjoying it, I’ve been thinking about metaphor and the way Lafferty uses it. Of all Lafferty’s novels, Arrive at Easterwine  is probably his most metaphorically difficult. Humans do not literally see only one-sixtieth of reality, but Lafferty’s concept of strobe vision is , especially in its sexual dimension which is tied up to Lafferty’s fixation on precocity and on sadism Because people tend to treat metaphor as inherently propositional and disguised, and because Lafferty

Advanced Lafferty: "The Rod and the Ring."  Lafferty told Hirushi Inoue that he had read several of Wittgenstein’s works. the weird box The Rod and the Ring  game arrives in, which I take to be Prime or, here perhaps, the whole As I have argued, Prime in Lafferty is characterized by what philosophers call underdetermination.

Maxwell has holed up inside his embodiment. Lafferty almost certainly named him after the famous thought experiment in thermodynamics, Maxwell’s Here we see evidence of Lafferty’s radical soteriology. If the reading holds, Lafferty allows a fallen spirit to martyr itself.

Lafferty’s fiction and nonfiction.

At the heart of this structure stands Thomas More, whose role remains to be more fully explored—perhaps This isn’t the whole picture, but it is, I think, part of what is at work here, and helps us understand Failed Dantean Vision: Because each Charles is swiftly killed, Lafferty suggests that temporal authority Lafferty portrays the Feral Lands as ironically more “human” than the “City,” because they still rely … It was a little while in the mornings that Thomas felt faith stirring in him.”

What a fine pretext to teach some Lafferty for the first time. Early" is a bit misleading, though, since— as Andrew Ferguson has pointed out —it was the first story Lafferty In the apparent world, Lafferty tells us, this is Airman Lundquist; in the real world, he is a wild Viking Watching Lafferty spit-roast narrative mechanics in this manner is one of the story’s big pleasures. He is one of Lafferty’s poignant schizo-gashes, with memories of the violent Bougainville campaign in

Regarding Buchan, I’d bet money Lafferty was very familiar with Prester John . Like Lafferty, his imagination circles apocalyptic violence and the death of worlds. Lafferty.   Lafferty, though he is not nearly as hopeful. As with Lafferty, his short stories are a good place to start.  

The more I think about Past Master , the clearer I see how Lafferty is playing with groups of three.

“Among the Hairy Earthmen” is one of my favorite Lafferty stories, though it is far more straightforwardly The story sits between these two peaks of Catholic culture, with Lafferty cocking a snook at the humanist This ties the story to the part of Lafferty’s mind that produced Fourth Mansions and historical rupture Lafferty has populated a timeline with a pattern: the children play games, and each one is played at Lafferty devotes a rich passage to this "epic naval set-piece."

Lafferty's published fiction comprises roughly 2,836,500 words and features around 80,000 unique word More Than Melchisedech  (7.723) Longer sentences usually indicate more complex sentence structures, while