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The lad knew a trick for seeing things in their right size instead of in the illusion that they project... The lad tried that same trick now. He… - R. A. Lafferty
" "The lad knew a trick for seeing things in their right size instead of in the illusion that they project... The lad tried that same trick now. He turned around, bent over, and looked at the Person backwards between his legs. And by that viewing, the Person Himself was a veritable giant, taller than the trees, taller than the distance between here and a full moon. Then the lad straightened up and turned around and looked at the Person frontwards; and the illusion returned... and the Person was again only a rather large and altogether pleasant man, not too large to be accounted in the normal human range.
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About R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (7 November 1914 – 18 March 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, famous for his humorous use of metaphor, narrative structure, and language in his very peculiar forms of etymological wit.
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Do you not know that the underground lands are shared by many worlds? It is all one underground, a vast place, and it is but a trick on which globe one will surface on coming out. This is the reason that the inside of every world is so much vaster than the outside. You are fooled by the shape of these little balls on which things live and crawl; you see the universe inside out; you see the orbs as containing and not contained. I will teach you to see it right if you please me.
What had dried up was not a well or pool or ocean of physical water. What had dried up was wit, and artistry, and congruence, and enjoyment, and the sparkle of the spirit. What had dried up was creativity in every form... Musicians couldn't improvise. They had nothing left to improvise with. The art of creative lying came to an end. Profanity became tired: it became louder and more in use, but it was repetitious and unoriginal. Pornography similarly lost gusto and increased in stridency. Jokes died out, and intuitions died. Problem-solving was a lost talent. And the roily oil that had made the slide through life so much easier had now lost its slickness and turned into an abrasive. The incredible creativity by which (and only by which) persons had managed to get along with each other at all was gone... At least one-third of the persons in the world had been super-creative in personal relations. If it hadn't been so, then personal relations would have been impossible.
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