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Lafferty’s In a Green Tree  contains the titles of many works and makes allusions to others. and Grammar of Assent Noyes, Alfred:  " The Highwayman " O'Casey, Sean:   Mentioned as a playwright whose O'Neill, Eugene:   Mentioned as a playwright whose works were read. Rambaud, Alfred:   Civilisation Française Rice, Elmer:   Mentioned as a playwright whose works were read Symonds, John Addington:   Renaissance in Italy Synge, John Millington:   Mentioned as a playwright whose

“Ahoy the Whale” is an unpublished Lafferty story included in The Man Who Talled Tales . Lafferty here isn’t subtle. To me, the Whale is a memorable icon of what we now call governmentality , but Lafferty occasionally By the time Lafferty writes “Ahoy the Whale,” this is common coin. Even though the parts of “Ahoy the Whale” themselves are fascinating, and even though Lafferty packed

Advanced Lafferty today. Let's do it to Lafferty: Lafferty takes the bones of this earth-and-sky myth (or something close to it Lafferty. to understand it as part of the whole Lafferty , not just one story amid others. We know that Anteros is, in some way, flat (Laffety says so), so he cannot be taken as the whole truth

Does Lafferty play with their presence elsewhere in the novel?

— Arrive at Easterwine “The Hole on the Corner” is near the top of my favorite Lafferty stories. Or such is Lafferty’s reading of Jung in this story. But Lafferty is going to do what Lafferty does: turn Jung inside out. Lafferty writes: "'I don't know, Corte,' he said to me. “The Hole on the Corner” is one of Lafferty’s masterpieces: funny, tightly plotted, ingenious, dark,

Of Bierce, Lafferty said, “He was a mixed comic and horror writer. So many of Lafferty’s stories are built on moments like that. In “Dig a Crooked Hole,” Lafferty imagines a kind of science fiction with Bierce, not Wells or Verne, Lafferty’s brief alternative history at the beginning of “Dig a Crooked Hole” is easy to skim past, but “Dig a Crooked Hole” is one of those stories in which Lafferty is doing his Fortean thing, making the

“I heard a mother tell her children, ‘Don’t worry,’” Lafferty said. time meeting Lafferty people. Lafferty covers the nature of faith, doubt, and cosmic infinity. As for the Whole Lafferty, one interesting character is a Jewish monk. Finally, I visited Swan Lake, near Lafferty’s home, where he used to walk.

Lafferty is being so programmatic. Lafferty writes, “Peter Luna was dead.” Now flip all that because Lafferty does. Lafferty . It’s a magical year in the Whole Lafferty.

, which makes it one of Lafferty’s allegories. I situate it within the whole Lafferty inside Lafferty’s sequence of stories about the law of intellectual The abundance of it is the whole thing. It cannot be rich and detailed if it isn't abundant. [...] Lafferty is making a point about spiritual goods. Lafferty’s message is, it happening to you, right now.

"Ballad of Invisible Alfred" Today, I was thinking about Lafferty’s image of pulling the hole in after A whole cosmos of maggotty cheese, turned green in its taint and rot.” Food. Holes. Mouths. He will slaughter the children whom Lafferty has positioned the reader to care about. Now I will say what gets said a lot about Lafferty because it is true. While Lafferty’s deaths are often violent, they are just as often exuberant—joyful, even.

Lafferty reconfigures the earlier materials. That will be part of understanding the Whole Lafferty. In the manuscript, Barnaby says that sequential evolution “tried to set the whole of the many-dimensions So here is a question: what is Barnaby’s whole clock? major story sequence, both in its own development and in its relation to the wider displacements of the Whole Lafferty.

whole Lafferty , the story becomes legible. This is what I have called Lafferty's half horrors. He is a person whose faith is not sufficient to see, in new aspects, what Lafferty keeps trying to show A familiar Lafferty message. Stephen is early Lafferty, but he is also just about as unsympathetic a Lafferty character as one can