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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, 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

Instead, he preferred to treat John 10:16 as profoundly mysterious, as though it pointed toward beings like those scattered through Irish folklore; as though it referred to creatureliness both other than

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

Then they begin exploring the villa’s vast, catacomb-like reference library, which miraculously manifests

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