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"A labor of love by inspired fans, this magazine celebrates the literature of an original American treasure, R. A. Lafferty. Praised by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe, compared to Borges and Garcia Marquez, Lafferty eludes genres. Sanguine about the availability of his writing, Lafferty fans created this enthusiastic mosaic of conversation, critique, fiction, poetry and art. Now, it's your turn. ""If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."" - G.K. Chesterton ""The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. By tomorrow, you may have lost something."" - R.A. Lafferty TABLE OF CONTENTS The Origin of the Feast by Kevin Cheek Talking About Talking About Lafferty by Kevin A. Cheek Laffertography by Rich Persaud A Few Words About R. A. Lafferty by Eric Walker If You do not Love Words: The Pleasure of Reading Lafferty by Elaine Cochrane An Interview with John Pelan by John Owen Lafferty Deserves a Documentary - a call to action by Andrew Mass Aloysius Ascending by David Cruces An Instinct for Friendship by John Owen To Be Continued? by John Barach Up Close, and in Particular by Martin Heavisides Hillary Ardri and Jane Chantal Ardri Illustration by Lydia Petersen The Epic of Man and His Friends or Slumming It With the Ontic Outcasts or May Our Eyes Be Big Enough To Take In the Nine Hundred Percent Gain in Everything! by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen Aeviternity: R.A. Lafferty's Thomistic Philosophy of Time in the Argo Cycle by Gregorio Montejo Some notes on play, time and Catholic Social Teaching in R.A. Lafferty by John Ellison O Golden, O Silken, O Mother-Loving World! an original story by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen The Prybar Spiel by Noah Wareness The Woman Who Wondered What Onions Think by J Simon Of Crystalline Labyrinths and the New Creation by Michael Bishop The Six Fingers of Time - an essay by Andrew Ferguson The Six Fingers of Time - a review by Kevin A. Cheek The Six Fingers of Time by R. A. Lafferty List of Contributors"

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