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He refers to the Genesis description of the world as inanis et vacua (void and empty) before Logos. 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

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

When the draft refers to “the Anastasis, the Resurrection Song,” it signals only Scarble’s personal change

The dialogue about the diamond’s origins and Hodl’s pocket contents now includes references to extraterrestrial

Contingent difficulties arise from unfamiliar words, phrases, or historical references that require and a reference to Dublin." That is easy contingent difficulty.

Mary Mondo’s spook nature is still clear, but references to Loretta Sheen’s half-spook condition appear Some earlier references to Loretta’s spook nature are omitted.

This is from the original abandoned manuscript: Second, there is the very important reference to E.

Here we have atrocity signs displaced from WWII to deny their historical referent.    

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

This title refers to the only thing I've ever learned about all persons: all of them are split.

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

so much DNA with Past Master that I have wondered whether it is the story source Lafferty sometimes referred