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“‎Sometimes traveling people will be talking together. They will say how good it is in some places and how bad it is in others. And, sooner or later, one of them is bound to mention it. "Talk about really being out in the boondocks!" he will say, "there's a little planet named Earth —"”

The Reefs of Earth (1968)

“It was their way of defying that tricky place Earth. That place will hurt you if you let it get the hop on you. They spooked the Earth spooks away with their stories. They whistled in the dark.”

The Reefs of Earth (1968)

“"A newspaper man has got to know when to keep his mouth and his mind shut. You might end up dead."
"Isn't that the usual fate of men, Harry?"”

R. A. Lafferty book Fourth Mansions

Source: Fourth Mansions (1969), Ch. 8

“Now then, I have given you a short fair hearing as the law requires. I do not solicit the support of your party, though, in all honesty, if it had more than one member I might.”

R. A. Lafferty book Past Master

Source: Past Master (1968), Ch. 9

“When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.”

Captain Roadstrum, about the planet Lotophage, Ch. 1
Space Chantey (1968)

“It isn't my profundity that makes me a mental marvel, it's the amazing detail of my perception. There's nobody else who can keep so many things on his mind at once.”

Atlas, in Ch. 4
Space Chantey (1968)

“An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”

Roadstrum to Puckett, on using crew members to test the lethality of the Siren-Zo, in Ch. 4
Space Chantey (1968)

“If you have come with high expectations of anything, you have come to the wrong place.”

A lieutenant of Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)

“Carr states that the characters of the Brunhilde are not true archetypes. Why, then they are false archetypes, and these also have their being. Kidd believes that X himself is in the process of becoming the Third Evil to fill the void left by the insufficiency of Papadiabolous and Seaworthy in the roles of devils. But Kidd is Joycean. To complicate matters, Lafferty swears that Finnegan is in no way Joycean, that he is nine hundred years earlier, out of the Yellow Book of Lecan (the Tain Bo Cuailinge), a character out of the Tain.”

This presupposes that Finnegan is identical with Fion McCool as well as with the more derivative Fingal, and also with Cu Chulainn. Well, Finnegan is capable of being all. To those interested in this line I recommend Thurneysen’s Die Irische Helden- und Konigsage.
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The Devil is Dead (1971)