Although the Lafferty letters I have read never mention it, MINDWEBS adapted his “Hands of the Man” and

problems to be examined without asking students to begin from the theological commitments within which Lafferty of another way of revealing and presencing (Anwesen) beyond Gestell, beyond late-modernity, which in Lafferty thinking on Gestell is inseparable from his disastrous attempt to think from within the prewar moment; Lafferty

Lafferty’s fiction and nonfiction.

Maxwell has holed up inside his embodiment. Lafferty almost certainly named him after the famous thought experiment in thermodynamics, Maxwell’s Here we see evidence of Lafferty’s radical soteriology. If the reading holds, Lafferty allows a fallen spirit to martyr itself.

Lafferty’s So frustrieren wir Karl den Großen. Erzählungen, Buchwurm.org, December 26, 2025.

Regarding Buchan, I’d bet money Lafferty was very familiar with Prester John. Like Lafferty, his imagination circles apocalyptic violence and the death of worlds. Lafferty. Lafferty, though he is not nearly as hopeful. As with Lafferty, his short stories are a good place to start.

. — In a Green Tree, Lafferty's synopsis Some Barnaby thoughts. It is a fun read and, really, an independent Lafferty work that ought to be published. Lafferty writes about Loretta Sheen’s paternity. in GT, and perhaps the synopsis unintentionally gives us Lafferty's deeper intentions. The TMWKE polyander dissolves when Lafferty decides to work the whole Sheen family into the governing

What a fine pretext to teach some Lafferty for the first time. Early" is a bit misleading, though, since—as Andrew Ferguson has pointed out—it was the first story Lafferty In the apparent world, Lafferty tells us, this is Airman Lundquist; in the real world, he is a wild Viking Watching Lafferty spit-roast narrative mechanics in this manner is one of the story’s big pleasures. He is one of Lafferty’s poignant schizo-gashes, with memories of the violent Bougainville campaign in

A Past Master exam for the hardcore Lafferty reader. All gnawing questions I keep going back to.

The more I think about Past Master, the more clearly I see how Lafferty is playing with groups of three

For anyone else who enjoys this sort of thing, here are some of Lafferty’s original titles: "Pani People

Lafferty tells us we are in a place where people hallucinate, but I will take the other fork in the road—one is no fact of the matter—it is neither really a duck nor really a rabbit, only an ambiguous figure whose