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The irony bubbles because Reynolds writes that Lafferty “refers to ‘Elias the Syrian from Oklahoma,’” The partially damned are the entirely saved, and this is preferable to the entirely damned.

In this story, however, he is referring to reified probability as mechanical in the downward sense,

By referring to both juveniles and adults under the same categorical descriptor, “girls,” Lafferty positions

A reader who catches the reference and also knows Paradiso  may recall that without Beatrice, Dante’s

German sociologist and systems theorist, known for his highly abstract theory of social systems as self-referential Andrew Willard Jones     Reference Works I Lose Myself In   Etymologies  by Isidore of Seville – An early

novel thesis could not be more clear: the anti-clerical liberal Catholic characters profess personal reverence this mysticism theme with religious allusions: for example, a witty exchange between two characters references

There are references to our Fall of Rome and to our Ireland—specifically Lafferty’s Knockmealdown Mountains

His book on Robert Browning (1903) shows a confusion of racial and cultural terms, referring to Browning

relevance in contemporary thought:  Decades after its introduction, Bakhtin’s carnivalesque remains a reference

Some contemporaries referred to Cathars and other dualists as “Manichees,” explicitly linking them to Many academic publications now avoid the term “Gnosticism” in their titles, preferring to speak of, say

We find here references to Moses’ encounters with God at Sinai (Exodus 19:16–19) and to the burning bush

Though their authors are unknown, these texts were pseudepigraphically ascribed to revered sages (like Formative Texts (1st–8th centuries):   An important early mystical work is Sefer Yetzirah (“Book of Sefer Yetzirah stands as “proto-Kabbalah”: it significantly influenced later Kabbalists with concepts By the 14th–15th centuries, Kabbalah (centered on study of the Zohar and Sefer Yetzirah ) had spread Even in areas like modern psychology and literature, one finds references to Kabbalah (e.g.