Dust Cover
A the masculine spirit of the Western World is extinguished, a tiny remnant of pondering souls wonder, debate and pontificate about what has been lost, what can be conserved, what should be salvaged, what must be resurrected.
The author of A Dread Grace contends that what set the West apart from competing cultures were its heroic traditions of sanguine transcendence, the sacred martial traditions of the Indo-European peoples. This narrative is a search for the spark of lethal dignity that has been extinguished from postmodern public life and enslaved by the machinery of War, but, as in ages past, remains imbedded in the combative quest of the individual.
Inspiration
“…the inhabitants were freed from the ghost for all time. I heard another story about Grace-speaker, how that he reached extreme old age, and escaping again from death departed from among men in another way.”
-Pausanius: from the Description of Greece
Footnotes and Comments
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A Note to the Reader
The text consists of two threads, the chronological narrative, and the subordinate anecdotes. It is my intention of publishing the entire narrative online under the A Dread Grace tag. The subordinate anecdotes are already being published under the When White Meant Might tag. For online readers the relevant anecdotes and narratives will be linked.
Dedication
For Samuel Finlay, who saw an ancient sun set in his youth
