Lafferty's Media Thinking and Its Influences In most of Lafferty’s media thinking, there is significant Lafferty must have been aware of their work. Lafferty writes that they are killed by mortal hatred for one another. Projection in Lafferty's Work One of the more intriguing examples of this in Lafferty is Doctor Fritz Lafferty's media-focused stories continually return to this problem.

Lafferty falls short. For many readers, it will be their first critical encounter with Lafferty’s legacy. Is this saying that Lafferty moves too rapidly to earn sublimity? This confuses two distinct registers in Lafferty’s fiction. "Lafferty, R.A."

This may be my favorite of Lafferty’s testy verse squibs about other science fiction writers. Against expectation, Lafferty respected Ballard. Lafferty’s usual contempt for science-fiction people therefore has little purchase on Ballard. More positively, Ballard and Lafferty share an apocalyptic temperament. Lafferty could respect craft seriousness even where he did not share belief.

Lafferty’s carbon of the letter is archived at Tulsa. The discussion forms part of a broader examination of Lafferty scholarship, specifically addressing how the limited circulation and obscurity of this document and the Lafferty archive have affected prior materials and Lafferty himself denying the Holocaust, and that distinction should be explicit in the I continue to think that academic integrity is a major problem in the Lafferty community.

The readers I think of most often when working on Lafferty are Andrew Ferguson, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen I think his main philosophical argument cuts off Lafferty from Catholic ontology. Like Flannery O’Connor, Lafferty is, for me, a savage artist of Catholic discomfort. Lafferty makes the reader pass through the gnostic nightmare. One ought to keep both in view. What canons of interpretation did Lafferty hold himself accountable to?

Lafferty’s Dotty offers a glimpse into what his literary career might have been had he pursued fiction Unlike much of Lafferty’s work, Dotty puts a check on its exaggerated humor and avoids discontinuous Lafferty would return to Dotty to mine it repeatedly. my favorite Lafferty hobbyhorses. Every Lafferty fan should at least read Chapter 11.

. — Sergius Bulgakov Advanced Lafferty. I read Lafferty through a Chalcedonian and dyothelite Christology, as does Montejo. Lafferty once said that myth is a way to get at the truth. I do think, however, that the tradition Montejo uses to read Lafferty leans this way. It makes Lafferty’s imagination more incarnational, not less.

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

What did Lafferty know about this? I worked through probable Lafferty sources, but I lean toward the second. The term belongs to the same popular New Age spirituality Lafferty is satirizing. It would be interesting to know what Lafferty himself thought of Erasmus. I suspect Lafferty's view was complicated.

" — The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny This will be the last I have to say about Lafferty’ I have thought a great deal about what an intellectually serious counterargument to my work on Lafferty This means offering a credible, evidence-based reason to dismiss Lafferty’s January 24, 1990 letter—a Lafferty created it to make his vision of the twentieth century legible to intelligent readers. But so far, no one who thinks seriously about Lafferty has made a good case.

— Lafferty, letter to Sheryl Smith, October 1, 1971 This will be of interest to about three people. Sheryl Smith, Lafferty’s first strong critic and his clever correspondent, ran a computer consulting In the 1990s she was working on a major Lafferty essay that never appeared.

Lafferty lately, so here’s a quick sketch, more a prompt than a full argument, with a way in. Dick and Lafferty share an obsession: the twentieth-century recovery of Gnosticism as the problem of The divide, as I see it, is this: Dick makes Gnosticism post-Cartesian; Lafferty keeps it pre-Cartesian Lafferty, by contrast, writes as if the cogito isn’t the center of the universe. Dick worries about the prison of the self; Lafferty worries about the prison of consensus reality.