Hah-NAH-lee? HAH-nah-lee? Well, either, depending on your place in the time stream. Late in Okla Hannali, Lafferty writes: Should anyone ever wonder how the “Hannali” in the title of this study is pronounced, it is this: If you read it before the end of the Civil War (some hundred years before it is written) you accent it on the second syllable. If you read it at a later date, you accent on the first. Did you read the novel before Lafferty wrote it, before he was born, before

There is a great and deep oceanic mind behind all this, a mind shimmering with intelligence and intuition. There is a soul brimming full of adventure and daring. There is intrigue that boggles belief. Most of all there is a personage who is sometimes a leaping and sounding spirit, and sometimes the Foremost Secret is— The Foremost Secret What? Ah, that too, for the moment, is a secret. — Fair Hills of Ocean, Oh! In the Whole Lafferty are the Oceanic novels. I’ve updated the O

Title page of La relación (1542), reproduced in The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1922). They made their moves in the late hours and reestablished their prestige. They told a series of tales that were quite unusual, and the other liars looked at them with awe and admiration. Due to the peculiar nature of these stories they cannot be given here. There was weird stuff in them, and we haven’t the presence or style of Esteban and Dorantes to carry them off with a fl