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  • "John Salt" (1959/1985)

    Some of the story’s stranger elements—Joshua’s references to the Book of Enoch, his recognition of Muhammad Source Note 1 Raising a man from the dead Biblical motif New Testament (e.g., John 11; Acts 9) General reference

  • "The Cliff Climbers" (1970)

    At dif ferent moments in his work, recension refers to lineages of creation (Adamic and pre-Adamite

  • "The Hole on the Corner" (1965/1967)

    Diogenes speaks lightly of the revered things of the consensus as “all the easy little dishonesties”; he has even referred to the leader-emeritus of the consensus (bow your head for a moment at the mention Corte refers to a previous Diogenes experiment ("I believe that this is another of your experiments,

  • "Love Affair With Ten Thousand Springs" (1975/1976)

    Cliveden believed that raw nature is waste and worthless, and he refers to the Genesis description of In the process, the word artificial  shifts its referent: it comes to mean nature as a higher-order pattern It is probably needless to point out that “Artificial” refers to the work of an Artificer, and an artificer

  • "And Name My Name" (1972/1974)

    as the seven magic people who will act as spokesmen for their species (one of Lafferty’s few direct references

  • "Berryhill" (1960/1976)

    What the religious references do give it is a framework upon which to hang these uncomfortable elements—a in detail, but it’s a mistake to think “Ginny Wrapped in the Sun” is merely a story with religious references

  • "The 99th Cubicle" (1984)

    This appears to be what salesmen refer to as negative reverse selling.

  • "Johnny Crookedhouse" (1957)

    The destruction or unstructuring of that world, which is still sometimes referred to as 'Western Civilization This makes the ten years Lafferty refers to most likely the period between that editorial work on the It refers to the extra‑legal, secret recovery of something owed to a person when the debtor refuses to

  • "Adam Had Three Brothers" (1959/1960)

    Does it  refer to ordinary geographers, or to Wreck geographers—people no doubt eager to sell you a map

  • "Unique Adventure Gone" (1979/1983)

    He refers to the "single-minded gospel," the "holy hymn" of the One-Horned Cow, and the "ascension" ( is often the case, the extension of the term consciousness in the story goes beyond what we usually refer

  • "Pine Castle" (1983)

    The title of the story refers to three spaces at once: the tavern where everyone drinks, the pine box

  • The Tower of Tarshish and the Dungeons of Tertullian

    The 13-Sided Dungeon of Tertullian refers to Tertullian’s theology.

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