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Yet most fans prefer to think of Lafferty as a jokey sage, someone dispensing a whimsical humanist wisdom He advised treating the allusions and references in the Cantos  as tangents that pick out a curve. (You refer to the latter as “the original.”)

I suppose it’s obvious, but moral evil refers to harm resulting from the blameworthy choices of free

When Lafferty uses biblical language or draws on sacred tradition, he rarely treats the reference as

The title refers to the pools of Hesebon in the Old Testament, to which the eyes of a woman are likened

In Action at a Distance , Vagt refers to it as “the phantasm of immediacy.” central nihilistic argument: that objective truth is an empty fiction (“bogus waters”), and humanity’s preference

It refers to the hidden and often non-material ways—such as folk customs, religion, and craft—through

Toonerville Trolley from a wonderful comic strip that I wasn’t familiar with until I came across his references

How are we to understand the “they” referred to at the end of the story?

Middle Ages, the rose was perhaps the best-known emblem associated with the Virgin Mary, who was often referred How preferable, says Lafferty.

The ancient rind of the title refers to the renewed or second formation of the heavenly waters—those Preferring an early death with the blue sky intact is, of course, the kind of decision made by Christ—and It is an interesting story, one with clear ties to Lafferty’s preferred cosmology (think what you will of it), his ideas about historical forgetting, his sense that human suffering may be preferable to human

Civilization refers to the external structures of human life, the machinery, systems, bureaucracies,

"Fall of Pebble-Stones " ), diagnose in a way that misses the point ("The Hole on the Corner"), and refer