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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

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.

Winding Stair Mountains, Oklahoma Reverence is the chief joy and power of life—reverence for that which The protection requires reverent effort. Wrong-Rain "busts his mind for it, as did . . . . If joy is hard for moderns, reverence is probably harder. There is certainly more joy in the world than reverence, and there is far too little joy. He is preaching out of season about reverence.