The four experimental groups were thrown together, on the North Shore of the growing Inneall’s Ocean, at a beautiful place named Heart’s Desire Cove. Inneall’s Ocean was now growing mostly to the South and East. It was capturing the valleys of the Verdigris, Grand, Illinois, Arkansas, and Middle and Lower Mississippi Rivers, and it seemed as if it would fill the whole area that had been filled by the Mid-American Ocean thrice in geological times. Yes, of course Inneall was ma

The first offense was the taking of the forbidden fruit. The second offense (which I believe is more grievous than the first) is the refusing of the bidden fruit. It is even the hacking down of the tree of the fruit. Advanced Lafferty today, and undoubtedly too brief. I’ve been rereading Serpent’s Egg, trying to understand how the Kangaroo connects to Inneall’s ocean, and throughout that novel one fact kept coming up. Once again, Lafferty is thinking about original sin, maybe

THE PIECES Archipelago Chapter 1, “In a Southern City,” introduces Finnegan (John A. Solli) and Vincent J. Stranahan during a WWII furlough in Sydney (February 1943). Finnegan's thoughts reveal his sense of fractured identity ("he doubted that he would ever find a place in it") and hint at his archetypal nature ("Adam," "Dionysus"). In Sydney, they encounter key figures: Hans G. Schultz, Marie Monaghan, Loy Larkin, Margaret Murphy, Tom Shire, Freddy Castle, and the strikingly