" — In a Green Tree Arnold Stein and Julius Brass are Lafferty’s most fully developed Jewish characters

. — Letter Another gem in Lafferty’s Vogelsprachekund translations is François Villon’s “Ballade des

Written in February 1968, this poignant story takes up two of Lafferty’s concerns at the time: ascendant

I wouldn’t abandon the search for clues, but he seems to belong to a recurring type that Lafferty creates Fourth Mansions fans know that Lafferty, fluent in German, drew on Carl Jung’s Aion: Researches into Did Lafferty also absorb some of Jung’s Alchemical Studies (Studien über alchemistische Vorstellungen

First came tumbleweed thistles, then fish, though not whales. Remember that Brannagan has to import whales into the freshwater oceans aboard his Folly Ships. They learned to jump whole ships between worlds until God forbade it. Later, he tries to remove them, but ghosts are hard to get rid of, as any Lafferty reader knows. He builds the seven Folly Ships to bring the right whales to Klepsis.

I have pet theories about how Lafferty handles consensus reality, especially in the two novellas in Apocalypses

the serpent of Revelation 12:9, "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole