“So your stuff, what should I read of yours?”

-before the computer screen watching Danny Jones interview Jason Jorjani

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Below are the books that I suggest for initial reads in the categories that I write.

Fiction

-Beyond the Pale is a religious fantasy in which the character, David Ben Able [not Abel] is based on YOU, my friend. The co protagonist, Heshman Shew Mote is based on Charles Wallace a man who I could never touch boxing and was a reformed criminal gang member who became a devote Hindu. Charlie was also the basis for the Randy Sterling Bracken character in The Sunset Saga.

-Last White Man, is me attempting to write a novel set in Northeast Baltimore a generation from now, by Robert E. Howard, if he had not shot himself in the head at age 30 and lived until 1968.

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American History

-Cox & Swain is an historically accurate novel set in Maryland peopled by actual historical actors, based on the work of poets and slaves George Alsop and Ebeneezer Cook and of Dutch slave hunter Augustine Herman.

-Sold is a novelized account of the monetization of three bound souls, one of whom was Thomas Hellier, whose confession I possess in digital form. Bound is the unwritten sequel and conclusion.

-Ball of Fortune is the annotated memoir of William Moraley from 1743, recounting his financial rape by various of his better placed countrymen and his numerous periods of captive service to slave masters, and the human kindnesses that sustained him.

-Advent America is the best introduction to Plantation America.

-Cracker Boy is the best and biggest of the Plantation America series

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Biography

-Let the World Fend for Itself, Big Ron’s Baltimore is the unlikely story of how a knucklehead carpenter figured out the social scheme of our world better and quicker than any of the “experts” on dystopia now, including my obtuse person.

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Ancient History

-He: Gilgamesh Into the Face of Time is an annotated adaptation of the oldest book we have, the story of a doomed and fallen god king.

The Arуas project I would read in reverse order as the later volumes are less dense. The series is for those who lack the time or reading pallet to read all of the classics and is also an attempt by this floundering mind to grasp these threads so as to see the loom that wove them.

-Blue Eyed Daughter of Zeus, easy read and a summation of a book whose author was slain for writing it.

-Songs of Arуas, a general survey

-Shrouds of Arуas, a general survey

-Beasts of Arуas, examination of man’s relationship with the animals and the monstrous

-Sons of Arуas, an attempt to begin tracking Arуan evolution and devolution. It began with the question of why the most warlike nations have the highest status women and ultimately descend into the most abject emasculation.

In Process and Being Scheduled...

On Substack

-The Son of God, summarized annotation of Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander, to be completed, God willing, in 2025.

On Jameslafond.com

-Enemy of All Mankind

My first and last book on conspiracy.

This includes a 10 part summation of Propaganda by Edward Bernays and a 14 part summation of David Astle’s history of financial conspiracy. Also included are treatments of Tacitus’ Agricola, Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days, being a survey down to works of the present day. I have no expectation of finding out “who” is behind our persistent sorrow and am simply sketching a thought map of gates to whatever it is that I don’t want to meet.

-Decline of the West

My interrupted summation of Oswald Spenglar’s monumental work.

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Masculinity in Modernity

-Taboo You

-Under The God of Things, an omnibus of Incubus of Your Sacred Emasculation, At the End of Masculine Time and The Third Eye.

-When You’re Food

-Narco Night Train

-Alienation Nation

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This is being written on 9/16/24, from memory, off line, in the mists of a persistent brain fog stemming from what seems to have been a seizure at 4 AM yesterday. I lost a few hours on the bathroom floor and Megan and Georgia were about to call an ambulance when I zombie like rose and went to bed—then I woke up on the living room floor, not in bed, at 8:00 AM. I am losing confidence in my brain and expect to finish only novels through the rest of the year.

Son of God and Enemy of All Mankind are currently obsessing me and I hope not to fail these weird responsibilities.