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  • 19 Misc Laff: Some Essential Books Lafferty Drew On

    The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline Multi-volume reference set. A major early-20th-century Catholic reference work, covering doctrine, church history, biography, theology An illustrated geography and world-cultures reference set, arranged by regions and countries, with maps A comprehensive reference dictionary for Greek and Roman literature, mythology, biography, history, geography

  • House Cleaning

    appearances, completion dates, reviews, variants, translations, links to cover art and full issue scans, and references

  • Reading Lafferty Through Motifs

    comparative folklore study, he raised the stakes, aiming to systematize all folk tales into a comprehensive reference The repeated ballad lines and references to holy skins create a formulaic ritual framework. Z0. Seasonal references (Indian Summer, Blue-Goose Autumn) operate as year-based formulas.

  • Montejo’s "There Are Three Ways to Open a Secret Door: R.A. Lafferty’s Bricolage Aesthetic."

    Because when meaning is produced through binary oppositions, nothing outside the code can fix the reference It salvages fragments whose form already embodies an analogical, quasi-sacramental reference, a potency The fragments’ sacramental surplus (grounded in prior esse) resists total domestication; reference outruns Scope of reference A sign can substitute for others, but its capacity is limited and “pre-constrained A concept possesses an unlimited capacity to refer, combine, and generate new predicates.

  • Lafferty's Doggerel

    nor steel nor steinn can stay with them; Steel and stone but also a drinking stein = big breakfast reference We trim to decent measure these giganticals Double meaning: “measure” refers to sizing up the giants He be tall eater and a taller topian, Refers to Roadstrum at “big breakfast.” A case of amphiboly: 'giantizing' refers both to killing giants and striving for greatness in the Homeric

  • Past Master: Chapters 6 & 7

    The Book of Nature refers to the created world as a means of knowing God through reason, enabling natural (Ch. 6, near Scrivener’s lines but referring to empire vs. wilderness) Dante’s Two Suns: Charles exemplifies BOOK OF REVELATION We see it most clearly in the Mass, Scripture references, signs of grace, and the

  • Julius Brass

    This post compiles key information about the character for reference in future posts.

  • Ouden as Supertranscendental

    It would be by calling him what late scholasticism referred to as supertranscendental.

  • Domdaniel

    An epigraph in Serpent’s Egg refers to it, too, where it looks as if it is being attributed to Mark Twain And there are a few other scattered references. “There are lots of references to the place or the castle Domdaniel,” he wrote.

  • The Slapdash Sublime?

    Second, he is not a “ransacker” of myth but a deliberate, often reverent, re-integrator of the Native But the reference to “normal canons of writing” likely refers to marketing norms, not literary virtues

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