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

connection with this, there is something off-putting about Dotty, an Irish-American Catholic girl, referring

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

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

This refers to the ouroboros, Dan's serpent folded into a self-consuming circle. The triple cube / six-sided straight / squares' squares' square: three self-referential geometric figures

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

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

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

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

Whenever a Lafferty narrative gets really upside-down, an implicit reference point of truth hovers in

The interesting question, therefore, is not whether one prefers the short stories to the novels. Those who prefer the short stories have often not seriously struggled with the novels, even if they have In Vietnam, troops referred to the Jesus bolt in a helicopter.

anti-Catholic, he and the very talented group to which he belonged kept something of a low profile, referring The only Catholic at Oxford who never showed any deference to the powers at Oxford was the half-Irish