Feast of Laughter 2

If you love R. A. Lafferty's wondrous and transpossible stories, you've come to that love by unmarked roads. You've made your own way into one of the densest and most crazily jigsawed mythworlds ever created-a body of work that nobody will ever see all the way into, and no two will ever see the same way. You've helped dig out a labyrinth, and it's a joyous thing, but the labyrinth is more than the digging. This volume is dedicated to the observation that the fog of obscurity is ever so slowly lifting from Lafferty's world, and every year it's a little easier to find your way in. It's dedicated to all the raw colts-the old ones and young-who are coming to these works for the first time. Table of Contents Inventions Bright and New: Original EssaysWorking With Ray: My Experiences with R.A. Lafferty by Greg KetterRay's Recycling Rewards Program by John OwenValery's Really Eyes and the Parade of Creatures by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen"This Was More Than a Spectacle, More Than an Illusion, It was a Communicating Instrument" R. A. Lafferty and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Relational Form of Being by Gregorio MontejoThrough a Glass Darkly by Craig MayExploring Themes From Catholic Theology in Two Short Stories by R. A. Lafferty by John EllisonLate Light by Rich PersaudLafferty's Monkey by Clinton Reid ClaussenLafferty: An Appreciation by Patrick May>All the People: International FandomSeven-Story Dream on Terschelling by Peter SijbengaThe Lafferty Centennial In Japan by Kenji MatsuzakiContinued on Next Book by 7 Japanese Laffertians>Those Who Know Everything: Interviews>Oh, Whatta Ya Do When The Well Runs Dry: Reprinted EssaysDespair and the Duck Lady by Michael SwanwickR. A. Lafferty-the secret sci-fi genius more than ready for a comeback by David BarnettTwice Beheaded: R. A. Lafferty's Thomas More by Anne Lake PrescottExcerpt from a Thesis by John EllisonA Richness of Endings by Dan KnightIntroduction to More than Melchisedech by Robert Whitaker Sirignano>You're On The Right Track, Kid: ReviewsR. A. Lafferty Spins a Yarn by Keith PurtellStrange Doings - a review by Stephen R. CaseOklahoma Gothic by Martin HeavisidesArrive at Easterwine-a brief review by Kevin CheekTask Force Fifty-Eight and a Half by Heywood ReynoldsIron Tears - a review by Darrell Schweitzer>The Emperor's Shoestrings: Works Inspired by R. A. LaffertyLand of the Great Horses by Peter SijbengaThe Honking Worm and the Gorilla Cheetah by Bill RogersThe Waltz Macabre by Logan GianniniFourteenth Chambers by Noah WarenessA Fisherman's Tune by Daniel Otto Jack PetersenWhat I Wrote for Andronicus by Stephen R. Case>Primary Education: LaffertiesAn Interview with R. A. Lafferty by Tom JacksonSodom and Gomorrah, Texas by R. A. Lafferty