the Fast household and learns from a waitress named Katie Collier that Fast is an empty politician born

Lafferty writes that he was born a Jew and joined the order because of its unparalleled opportunities belly of Katie Noonan, about whom one learns a lot, so that Ifreann can communicate, or Ifreann being born

One of Lafferty's best stories is one of his earliest, “Ghost in the Corn Crib.” “Ghost in the Corn Crib” dramatizes the construction of the ghost story, raises questions about epistemic Lafferty ties Amos to the Captain with a symmetrical legend, biography, and epitaph: born January 1,

Henry dreamed it out in the mornings as he sat in the cave, and in the afternoons as he sat on top of Lafferty said in an interview, "As for me: I was born November 7, 1914, in Neola, Iowa. stories that explore what it is like to be a child living in the ambient of storytelling: “Ghost in the Corn Henry's hopes are crushed on Saturday morning when he meets Baxter, a boy whose family had moved into

And any gratuity (which I am sure you will be delighted to give) I will take in cash in the morning.” In the morning, Ginger wakes, takes a gratuity, and gets ready to leave. I am thinking about Edith O'Melody Drakos's "horny parties” that involve nude parthens in set off rooms

For Scrivener and Maxwell, it is a fantasy born of fear.

Lafferty who isn’t treated completely negatively is the trilobal James Riddle in "Dorg," who, half-mad and horn-rimmed If you dissolve your identity every night in alcohol, you cannot guarantee what reconstitutes in the morning

He falls into the same excesses that weaken “Horns On Their Heads” (1971).

Aurelia, for example, draws heavily on W. T. Farrell’s Companion to the Summa (1938–1942). bottle our parents twain in the yolk of an addled egg, We know that the tail must wag the dog, as the horse

circuit omnem terram Hevilath ubi nascitur aurum[which circles all the land of Havilah where gold is born She does not know her true birthday (she was born on St. Catherine’s day, but which St. Catherine?) Phison: Circles land of Havilah ("where gold is born"). B. Gihon: Circles Ethiopia. C. Identity: "A Child of the Century" (born Jan 1, 1900). B. Year: Born 1910, though described as a "lady of uncertain age." B.

From the outset, Albert is born a dolt, while other children are born smarter.

probably haunted by this more than most people (I think) because his father was so old when he was born