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    Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas
    Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas
    Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas
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    Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
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    R.A. Lafferty

    R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002) lived almost his entire life in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After service in the South Pacific during World War II, he worked as an electrical engineer. He began selling fiction regularly in the early 1960s, and went full-time as a writer in 1971. His work draws on many influences, ranging from Irish and Native American tales to the writings of St. Teresa of Avila. His novels include Past Master (1968), Fourth Mansions (1969), and the Native American historical Okla Hannali (1972).

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      Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas - R.A. Lafferty

      Project Gutenberg's Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas, by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty

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      Title: Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas

      Author: Raphael Aloysius Lafferty

      Illustrator: Ritter

      Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23161]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SODOM AND GOMORRAH, TEXAS ***

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      The place called Sodom was bad enough. But right down the road was the other town—and that was even worse!

      Sodom

      and

      Gomorrah,

      Texas

      By R. A. LAFFERTY

      Illustrated by RITTER

      MANUEL shouldn't have been employed as a census taker. He wasn't qualified. He couldn't read a map. He didn't know what a map was. He only grinned when they told him that North was at the top.

      He knew better.

      But he did write a nice round hand, like a boy's hand. He knew Spanish, and enough English. For the sector that was assigned to him he would not need a map. He knew it better than anyone else, certainly better than any mapmaker. Besides, he was poor and needed the money.

      They instructed him and sent him out. Or they thought that they had instructed him. They couldn't be sure.

      Count everyone? All right. Fill in everyone? I need more papers.

      "We will give you more if you need more. But there aren't so

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