In one specific and unambiguous sense, Lafferty stated plainly that he does not write novels. Most Lafferty readers do not understand the position of the historical fiction in the Lafferty canon. For Lafferty, it turns out to be the metaphysical meaning of all history. , though Lafferty may have meant this himself in his original note. Ambient is a word Lafferty often used, and we can use it diagnostically as well.

— Letter Antisemitism is a small part of my interest in Lafferty, but getting a grip on his variety of predictable: pearl-clutching dumbassery from the left and dumbassery from the right about canceling Lafferty Lafferty was a very, very good writer, a man of his time whose fiction depended on a profound interest Lafferty is one of my favorite writers. Having read all of Lafferty now, this is what I see.

work if you are new to Lafferty. To begin, I want to distinguish between two very different things: canonical Lafferty and your Lafferty My own idiosyncratic way of doing that is something I call the Whole Lafferty. Lafferty. I also would not recommend spending heavily on Lafferty books on the secondary market. As someone exploring Lafferty, you are better served by learning the order in which Lafferty wrote his

I sometimes put a Lafferty theme in country-simple terms, but I would never say that Lafferty’s literary I think Lafferty is exceptionally interesting because of how what I call the Whole Lafferty rewards this be tracked if the work is to be appreciated as a whole. In Lafferty, this can be simple. Lafferty writes like a mad engineer.

I noticed in Lafferty (Julius Brass’s involvement in what looks like the Bretton Woods System in Green If you know Lafferty, you know from interviews and his fiction that Plutarch was one of his favorite Someone said about problematic Lafferty, “What I enjoy transcends the problematic elements.” I, too, enjoy Lafferty. It is a matter of measure. It is your ice cream cone. antisemitism tag on the blog, read about the archival record and how the issues have been addressed by Lafferty

I want the whole Lafferty, not a toy Lafferty. Lafferty writes, “Irene was ten years old.” I do not think Lafferty was a pedophile. So she left them there, the finest friends she had made all day, and among the finest of her whole life Lafferty’s adults stay children inwardly, while his children become extraordinarily strong, knowing,

(Lafferty's "never" is too strong. (Lafferty's memory slipped on the first name. Through Perry, Lafferty and Keaton had a personal link. He also told Smith he had not seen the whole of Keaton: "I'm not sure that I've ever seen Steamboat Bill Lafferty never claimed to understand it.

Where does this whole reaction thing come from? Can you name an authoritarian in Lafferty whom Lafferty himself endorses? The same people who tend to call Lafferty a reactionary will also say, quite correctly, that Lafferty Lafferty wanted to plunge us forward. Does this description fit Lafferty?

Lafferty drew on ideas from Gnosticism for many of his most important short stories, from "Snuffles" I’d like to have a post on this blog where I can keep updating my understanding of this side of Lafferty I will add updates over time, along with a running list of Lafferty stories where Gnosticism plays a This will be my hub post for Gnostic Lafferty. Carl Jung, the famed depth psychologist who influenced Lafferty, drew heavily on Gnostic symbolism.

Comics and Lafferty make a fascinating story, given the place comics occupy in his work, both as an influence There is an alternate universe in which Lafferty’s stories get adapted during the second flourishing The only version of the man himself I know of in comics is the Scottish Aloysious Timothy Lafferty, who One of the weirder places Lafferty shows up is in the June 1974 issue of Terror Tales, one of Eerie Publications

dicta on pornography in an essay Lafferty wrote. Though it didn’t generate any discussion, I stand by the idea that Lafferty’s most profound fictional The second half of Dotty speaks more explicitly about sex than anywhere else in Lafferty’s work, but In The Flame is Green, however, Lafferty goes further in setting out a dialectic of eros. Is this Lafferty’s prefigurement of eros as sacrament?

I was lucky enough to come across Andrew Ferguson’s thoughts on Lafferty’s ghost story early on—Lafferty's If you’ve read enough Lafferty, you recognize it when it happens. in miniature, then in this heuristic, Lafferty’s monads are ghosts, each reflecting the underlay in Let’s go all in and call Leibniz’s pre-established harmony Lafferty’s underlay. They’re toys in Lafferty’s sandbox, offering offhand clues through patterns of action.