My Grim Thanks
Acknowledgements for Sold
© 2017 James LaFond
FEB/22/17
Thanks to Lynn Lockhart at
and Eric Frazier at the Library of Congress, for enabling my reading of The Vain and Prodigal Life and Tragical Penitent Death of Thomas Hellier. I could not have embarked upon this novel quest without your kindness. When I began researching the roots of modern boxing two decades ago, I had no clue that it would bring me to this perspective.
And also, I owe a debt for repeated kicks in my creative posterior to “write this thing” by my brother in moral dissonance, Mescaline Franklin.
america the brutal
hate
barbarism versus civilization
the fighting edge
uncle satan
the lesser angels of our nature
honor among men
your trojan whorse
fanatic
wife—
the gods of boxing
songs of aryas
masculine axis
on combat
on the overton railroad
z-pill forever
advent america
song of the secret gardener
the combat space
the sunset saga complete
cracker-boy
sorcerer!
all-power-fighting
triumph
winter of a fighting life
by the wine dark sea
fiction anthology one
the greatest boxer
under the god of things
predation
dark, distant futures
broken dance
the first boxers
book of nightmares
the greatest lie ever sold
solo boxing
fate
logic of force
thriving in bad places
logic of steel
ranger?
let the world fend for itself
sons of aryas
into leviathan’s maw
menthol rampage
time & cosmos
beasts of aryas
orphan nation
son of a lesser god
when you're food
night city
blue eyed daughter of zeus
within leviathan’s craw
taboo you
the year the world took the z-pill