Lafferty evidently decided, when reworking the material, that the passage needed something Strogoff could What is Lafferty doing with him? Let's go through how he appears in the novel. While the others play corrupt and violent games, his attention turns wholly to Aurelia. That is Lafferty’s symbol cluster of mechanical and wax-work man with mask on top of mask. Strogoff is a messenger with an all-important content that must be conveyed, and his one clear action in Lafferty

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.

.” — Aurelia Thinking about Aurelia and her crash landing a few weeks ago put me in mind of one of Lafferty Born in Switzerland, she became associated with Spain, especially Andalusia, whose customs, landscapes

Raphael Aloisius Lafferty’s most interesting work, however, takes place on the distant planet Camiroi Lafferty’s scathing irony hits the nail on the head with regard to education, starting from the idea conservative, is not bad; it simply means that, in those metapolitical paradoxes that history allows, Lafferty

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.

Casey's drawing of Hell alludes to an unpublished archival Lafferty piece, "Seven Scenes from Sheol," This is all pretty niche, even within the niche of people who care about a Lafferty. Lafferty seems to have imagined seven stories that would form a sequence. I absolutely love that Lafferty closed this arcane loop, even if exceedingly few people will ever know Finnegan calls himself a Neanderthal and says that his people were the true painters of prehistory, while

“There’ll Always Be Another Me” is one of my least favorite Lafferty stories. While Roxie is crossing a busy street, a car passes right through her without causing any injury. Soon, Otto and Roxie are proper Lafferty-style poltergeists. Otto assaults Ottoman by punching him in the nose and kneeing him in the groin while whistling "There'll Sour Lafferty.

Advanced Lafferty. “Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies” is the only short story by Lafferty with the complexity of Lafferty gives us little information about this narrator, but whoever it is addresses us from “outside “Slow Light” & “Ghostliness” as Diegetic Mechanisms Lafferty, being Lafferty, turns it all up. Lafferty is suspending us in a half-finished intradiegetic space.

In September of 1976, Lafferty finished “Bright Coins in Never-Ending Flow,” a short story about a man For now, the penny is legal tender (in Lafferty’s story, a timeline is set for ending this). In “Bright Coins in Never-Ending Flow,” Lafferty gives the reader a version of the deal-with-the-devil This is light Lafferty. Four days later, Lafferty completed "Bright Coins in Never-Ending Flow."

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.

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

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 it 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.”