▽Continued on Next Rock ●03/19 06:43 Now, it is always dicey to link an author and their characters—though Lafferty does the same here in some ways, attributing materialist philosophies to Balzac and Joyce, among others, on the basis of their written fictions—and one could certainly make a case for these as the thoughts of a despairing, heartbroken teenager, rather than of the middle-aged electrical salesman who wrote her
▽Yet Another Lafferty Blog ●01/28 18:25 ”Frog on the Mountain” is very much in the vein of Fourth Mansions in that Garamask has to incorporate the strengths of all four monsters to be a ”fully charged human.” He has to fight each monster in its element and style, to essentially become the monster to defeat it, so he must incorporate the characteristics of ”Sinek the cat-lion, Riksino the bear, Shasos the eagle-condor, and Bater-Jeno the
