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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

" — In a Green Tree Arnold Stein and Julius Brass are Lafferty’s most fully developed Jewish characters

Lafferty tells us we are in a place where people hallucinate, but I will take the other fork in the road—one is no fact of the matter—it is neither really a duck nor really a rabbit, only an ambiguous figure whose

I wouldn’t abandon the search for clues, but he seems to belong to a recurring type that Lafferty creates Fourth Mansions  fans know that Lafferty, fluent in German, drew on Carl Jung’s Aion: Researches into Did Lafferty also absorb some of Jung’s Alchemical Studies  ( Studien über alchemistische Vorstellungen

I have pet theories about how Lafferty handles consensus reality, especially in the two novellas in Apocalyses

the serpent of Revelation 12:9, "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole