Advanced Lafferty today. Polemical because we need better arguments about Lafferty. Lafferty readers must have been excited for a new Lafferty. No Lafferty readers seem to understand it. is an esoteric writer in the whole. Lafferty owned IHR material that said it was. Now think about the Holocaust, which Lafferty denied.

Does Lafferty play with their presence elsewhere in the novel?

More Than Melchisedech, situating them within the blog’s broader exploration of neglected sides of Lafferty's This takes place when the girls are around eight to ten years old, with Lafferty saying that Duffey had So while Stein is not Jewish linguistically, it became strongly associated with Jewish heritage through Age 15–17 Duffey had "sparky and elegant trolley car romances" while riding streetcars to his various Post-Letitia's Death The Countess Margaret Stone (whose kind does not reach puberty until after age fifty

Lafferty." Lafferty means by "ghost." Without going too deep into the whole argument, two terms are key: influence and causal power. an ontological argument about Lafferty. fidelity to Lafferty's artistic aims (violates P6).

— 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,

I have called, in Lafferty’s case, Janusian peripeteia. 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

Lafferty said, “I’m kind of a quirky guy.” And here we are . . . at the lake. “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.

A post on Walter Farrell, O.P., whom Lafferty respected and whose books he sent to people he respected I think of Walter Farrell in the Whole Lafferty as an iron plank. Farrell and Lafferty with Aquinas being the theme. Watkin fell away from Lafferty after Lafferty exhausted him and moved away from TMWKE to Green Tree, most important facts about him: Farrell believed theology belonged not only to specialists, but to the whole

One should read the Belloc essay "On An Unknown Country" that Lafferty quotes in Section 2 because Lafferty 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’s happening to you, right now.

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