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A Broken Stairway, a Hidden Fountain, and the Fool Who Sees
Re-reading R. A. Lafferty's "Fourth Mansions". I read it more than fifty years ago. I was taking a lot of drugs back then.
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A Broken Stairway, a Hidden Fountain, and the Fool Who Sees
Re-reading R. A. Lafferty's "Fourth Mansions". I read it more than fifty years ago. I was taking a lot of drugs back then.
Leo & Diane Dillon, first edition(?) cover for R.A. Lafferty's Fourth Mansions. And here's Lafferty's invitation to the reader:
"There is entwined seven-tentacled lightning. It is fire-masses, it is sheets, it is arms. It is seven-coloured writhing in the darkness, electric and alive. It pulsates, it sends, it sparkles, it blinds!
It explodes!
It is seven murderous thunder-snakes striking in seven directions along the ground! Blindingly fast! Under your feet! Now! At you!
And you! You who glanced in here for but a moment, you are already snake-bit!
It is too late for you to withdraw. The damage is done to you. That faintly odd taste in your mouth, that smallest of tingles which you feel, they signal the snake-death.
Die a little. There is reason for it."