OT: Lafferty recommendations

Gwern Branwen · 22 Jul 2007, 21:39 · from 2007-July.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:39:57 -0400
Subject: (urth) OT: Lafferty recommendations
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On  0, Sean Lackey <zeppelin at texas.net> scribbled:
>
> I read dad's copy of The Devil is Dead about 15 years ago, I read my
> copy a few weeks ago.
>
> I'm not convinced they were entirely the same.
>
> But I liked them both nevertheless.
>
> This book bears watching however....
>
> Sean Lackey

They might well not have been. I quote a section from the Wikipedia article on Lafferty:

*"Apocryphal Passage of the Last Night Of Count Finnegan On Galveston Island"; the last chapter of The Devil Is Dead, omitted from the standard version, because the publisher of the first edition did not receive it in time to include it; later published separately in Episodes of the Argo

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