This interactive map links to my work on the angstrom stories. It shows how Lafferty drew on E. I. Watkin’s The Bow in the Clouds (1932) to shape the sequence before departing from Watkin’s scheme. Watkin uses colors to explain his Bonaventurist account of knowledge and experience; Lafferty builds stories around them, sometimes following Watkin, often arguing with him. Lafferty later transmuted this material when he turned to In a Green Tree. In composing The Men Who Knew Eve

Any statement can be held true come what may, if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system. —W. V. O. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (1951) Even so, something was a little bit wrong with things. Some people said that the days were off by maybe a millionth of a second from what they should be. Other people said that the days were off by several hours. They were off, that’s certain. There was an easy solution, of course, for a mechanically sophisticated