My problem with most of the story collections of his* work that I've encountered is exactly this. Many of them seemed hastily thrown together. I know working out thematic arrangement would be a challenge, but there are ways of doing it. It might be possible to bring together his works under kinds. For instance, this batch corresponds to muddy ( Read more... )

Henry dreamed that night, as he knew he would, and of a boat. The name of the boat was the Navicula Petri. It looked like a Galleon, and yet it was quite other. There were many pennants and flags flying from it.
In hoc signo vinces, said one of them. And there was another in the looping handwriting of Finnegan, the left hand of Finnegan for he ( Read more... )

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If I had to create a soundtrack for Boomer Flats, this would be a good first pick.

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Lafferty took down dictation about mail-order extracto-précis kits prior to 1971.

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"This is most important to the closing and diminishing of the circle. We support, as expedient, all cyclic Orphism; and so we must support the effort of the returnees...Their concern that the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth be repeated has been a good one up to this time. The returnees must at all cost keep the world in this cycle. They cannot ( Read more... )

"You narrow the groove too much and even the noble tree dies ( Read more... )

"We will, of course, abandon large sections of the world as soon as we can phase them out. The entire old world, I believe, can be well abandoned in the present century. There is no need of it, really. The new world is ample for the people. 'Is it not well that all the members of one family should dwell in one house ( Read more... )