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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

A Tall Jail-Break in Scotland

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One pleas­ant af­ter­noon Ma­zuma O'Shaunes­sey was in jail in a little town in Scot­land. The jailer was gloomy and sus­pi­cious and...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Glimpse of the Thesis Bibliography

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Always want to post so many things, but too swamped with thesis work. Due to submit this September. (!!!!!!) For fun, here are some titles...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018

All Pieces of a Lafferty Dissertation: Ad Hoc Update On the PhD (sort of)

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Can't believe it's been over a year since I posted on this blog! I've got the hankering today, so, instead of trying to craft a ...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The Flame is Green (1971)

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[Cross-posted from Goodreads .] Four and a half stars. It's probably five stars in the sense of being one of the ‘high art’ novels tha...
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

"I always break them," said the monstrous face.

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There was the morning that Dana saw the whole fair landscape from horizon to horizon and realized that it was all on the inside of one very ...
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Thursday, August 4, 2016

A rundown of a dozen or so of Lafferty's novels

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A year or so ago someone asked me on Facebook where they should start with reading Lafferty. (I've been asked many times.) In response I...
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Reading the Argo Cycle part 3 - The Human Race is Made Up Entirely of Glowing Geniuses (some initial thoughts on the complete 'The Devil is Dead' trilogy)

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Well, I finally read the very last words of the very last book ( Argo ) of the so-called The Devil is Dead trilogy, which is the novelis...
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Lafferty's 80s novels

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Academia and family have obviously kept me far too busy to keep up with this blog over the past many months.  (The last post was in late Feb...
Friday, February 26, 2016

The Skokie Who Lost His Wife

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This is the way they tell it.  A Skokie heard a Shelni jug flute jugging one night.  ‘That is the voice of my wife,’ the Skokie said. ‘...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Reading the Argo Cycle part 2 - Archipelago Ch. 1: Hans & Marie & the Poetry-Eating Squirrels

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Well, I've begun reading the last book of the so-called The Devil is Dead Trilogy.  That is, I'm reading  More Than Melchisidech Boo...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

The Shelni Who Turned into a Tree

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This is how they tell it. There was a woman who was neither Shelni nor Skokie nor Frog. She was Sky Woman. One day she came with her child...

The Shelni Who Lost His Burial Tooth

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It is told this way. There was a Shelni who lost his burial tooth before he died. Every Shelni begins life with six teeth, and he loses on...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Lafferty News (Issue 5)

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The biggest Lafferty news of late is that he is finally being published again.  Only e-books for Kindle are available so far, and only in th...
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