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

This is a story about the individual door Lafferty’s refers to in his letter, a thought experiment about

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.

Inverted monophysitism is the Christological problem: it characterizes the divine nature by reference

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

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

manuscript would have given him Monica MacLish; Anselm Sheen as a substantial figure rather than a passing reference eating wind and electricity, the Acroceraunian Mountains, the Rat King, Brookhaven, the Lady of Salette reference recreational-romantic Halloween Dance at Monica Hall, McGee Funeral Home as the surname's novel-side referent Dugan and his unfulfilled future-trick promise (the cycle's first unfulfilled-future-debt structure, deferred apparatus, Yves Denis Montalba's 1850 steam-rabbit history, the Devil's Handshake Dune, Dirty Dugan's deferred

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

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

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

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

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