R.A.Lafferty

[j minnich]

>Any Lafferty fans out there in Pynchonia?  I know he's not in the same lit
>league as our mentor but he has certain  qualities which transcend the
>mundane,, and IMO at his best was as drunk on words as TP is stoned. ( I
>know some feel that TP may not necessarily have been, or be, a doper but
>that to me is like saying W.C. Fields wasn't into booze.)  It would be a
>pleasant diversion to have an echat with some other TRP/RAL fans.  
>Just thought I'd ask.
>Mike
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I either read or tried to read a book called _Fourth Mansions_ many years
ago.  It was the only Lafferty book I ever encountered, I think. It was
para-psy-sci-fi, if there is such a genre.  Now, speaking of obscure sci-fi,
anybody ever read John Sladek's _Mechasm_?
   -J minnich
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...The poet is dead.
Nor will ever again hear the sea lions 
Grunt in the kelp at Point Lobos.
Nor look to the south when the grunion 
Run the Pacific, and the plunging
Shearwaters, insatiable, 
Stun themselves in the sea.  
   -Wm. Everson