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Now we must apply what we have said of the part to the whole living body. For the same relation must hold of the whole of sensation to the whole sentient body as obtains between It is a little criminal, given how little Lafferty cared about making a great deal of money. Lafferty writes that Jack’s eyes “broke then, and gushed away in two scarlet streams.” Lafferty writes that Jack is dizzy and feverish, surrounded by coruscations and flame.

And then the wheels start rolling, rolling, rolling, ur-Lafferty, Lafferty’s most primitive version of traits and actions cohere into an intelligible whole by way of trace. Lafferty throws that out the window. He can hear, in the groan and rattle of approach, not just a wagon but a whole train of them, each with with the tongue “pegged” to the undercarriage or axle so that turning becomes a matter of dragging the whole

This is a Lafferty twist on Exodus  17:1-7 and Numbers  20:2-13. Another thing Lafferty is doing here is pushing his ongoing critique of the media. In Bochtan’s death, Lafferty gives us the worst version of both. This isn’t an oversight; it’s the whole point. While Lafferty often pulls against definitive endings, here the lack of closure suggests, at least to

Lafferty would call that dog dirt. His corpus is not unknowable. One of the pleasures of this hobby project has been getting to know the whole shebang. Background logics are essential for grasping Lafferty’s larger blueprints. For Lafferty, the exhausted form was long-form fiction. I have come to see it as Lafferty’s lost-in-the-wilderness work.

Many Lafferty readers know Esteban exist s . Lafferty mentioned it. He makes for a good Lafferty protagonist. Lafferty is writing according to his own novel's pattern. This is what the whole passage looks like in Esteban : There is a break here which we cannot fill Dorantes began to laugh as he had not for a year, and he declared that he had a whole life left such

A warning at the outset: this post begins with an early and pretty innocent Lafferty sex farce, then Sex is all over Lafferty. It is symptomatic that people miss this. It is here that Lafferty’s own libidinal interests enter the story in a compromised form. No one thinks of Lafferty as an erotic writer. Lafferty enjoys it.

It's Lafferty playing a high-stakes game. Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human  (2009), not least because of its title and because the whole world in Lafferty’s story becomes an inferno. What Lafferty called the science fiction person will always be puzzled that a man as smart as Lafferty The Lafferty twist is that the practical truth is catching fire itself (how dare Lafferty do this to

Justin, being a Lafferty hero, becomes distracted. Death is puzzling in Lafferty. But while there are brutal, stony deaths in Lafferty, more often death is less grim than it is in almost It just doesn’t work that way in Lafferty. Parts outlive the whole: a head is lobbed off and talks. Lost states return, often improbably.

Its title might just as well describe Lafferty’s Ghost Story . It coincides with how Lafferty takes reality to be. That’s him. friend Cob Coliath shouts, “You are an unmatched half, Tom . . . and ours is a world full of unmatched wholes Hence the sun-and-swine motif in Lafferty’s story. Lafferty knew full well that Frazer was deeply out of fashion.

This is also one of Lafferty’s anti-evolution stories. Even set alongside Lafferty stories, it looks quirky. What Lafferty does with the food pageant is blurry until seen in retrospect. This is an example of Lafferty’s technique of iconographic insetting . It isn’t exactly advanced Lafferty, but you’d need to know Lafferty pretty well to get what’s happening

.” — Thomas Aquinas Advanced Lafferty today. “ The Effigy Histories” is one of my favorite Lafferty stories Lafferty gives us Karl Effigy, a young man and former juvenile delinquent. Arithmetic is Lafferty’s limit case. The big joke here is the one the story ends on. For Lafferty, the ultimate stakes of this must be religious. That makes him an extremely weird moderate foundationalist, one who can appeal to both the whole-hog

There are so many memorable birds in Lafferty’s work. Still others are threats around which whole plots turn, as with the roc in “Heart of Stone, Dear” and Lafferty finished it after the wonderful “And All the Skies Are Full of Fish” and before the difficult Lafferty is parodying the detective genre and having a great deal of fun. Lafferty has them on his mind. They inform the character building.