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  • 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.

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • IVp Prime and Totalization

    Trinity’ themselves are modifications of the early distinction of theology and economy, in that they refer The immanent Trinity and economic Trinity came to be terms referring to the two aspects of the Trinity based on the reference point taken, with the economic Trinity being the self-revelation in the world If the symbolic order is endlessly deferred or purely self-generating, the sacramental logic of Lafferty

  • "Communion of Saints" (1959)

    his sake, seats the rival husbands at “opposite ends of the room,” and warns Perpetua that “if nobody refers to certain things in the past, why then nobody refers to them, and that is better for all.” Lafferty once referred to Yves Congar —Newman's intellectual son—as something like a pop theologian.

  • "Configuration of the North Shore" (1967/1969) and the Oceanic Novels

    What I recently referred to as the  Big Egg Problem  attempts to specify the writerly challenge Lafferty

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