The Pale Usher
Impressions of Moby Dick: Herman Melville and Modern Man?s Transcendental Journey Paperback – August 31, 2017
© 2017 James LaFond
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In The Pale Usher, the author, masculinity historian James LaFond, examines the text and subtext of the 25-chapter overture to Moby Dick as an allegory of Civilized Man’s awakening to his socially submerged self—a primal quest within the domesticated human in search of his authentic self.
In this work, the author goes on to examine the works of such authors as Robinson Jeffers, J. R. R. Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith, Thomas Ligotti, Dan Simmons, Bram Stoker, Ambrose Bierce, Phillip K. Dick, Carl Jung, Robert Bloch and H.P. Lovecraft.
night city
when you're food
time & cosmos
song of the secret gardener
masculine axis
broken dance
fanatic
america the brutal
logic of steel
your trojan whorse
blue eyed daughter of zeus
under the god of things
the combat space
on combat
within leviathan’s craw
into leviathan’s maw
wife—
barbarism versus civilization
sons of aryas
the fighting edge
songs of aryas
orphan nation
predation
by the wine dark sea
z-pill forever
son of a lesser god
the year the world took the z-pill
sorcerer!
the greatest boxer
dark, distant futures
the lesser angels of our nature
let the world fend for itself
on the overton railroad
beasts of aryas
taboo you
the gods of boxing
honor among men
the greatest lie ever sold
fiction anthology one
logic of force
cracker-boy
fate
solo boxing
winter of a fighting life
triumph
ranger?
the first boxers
thriving in bad places
advent america
menthol rampage
hate
book of nightmares
uncle satan
all-power-fighting
the sunset saga complete