# The Devil Is Dead

- Author: [R.A. Lafferty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ra-lafferty.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ra-lafferty/the-devil-is-dead

## Quotes

> 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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> Brannagan had been to more places than Finnegan had, including the same places. He had not only skirted the d'Entre-Casteau Islands, he had walked all over them. He had not only sailed through China Straits, he had dived in them for old wrecks. He had not only climbed the Cloudy Mountains, but had panned gold in their streams and dips.

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> Put the nightmare together. If you do not wake up screaming, you have not put it together well.

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> When you can't depend on the Devil, who can you depend on?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-lafferty/the-devil-is-dead/when-you-cant.md)