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Born Again
by Alfred LAWSON (1869 - 1954)09 - Chapter IX
"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have gathered - a very silly plot." - oddbooks.co.uk Alfred Lawson was a veritable Renaissance man: a professional baseball player, a luminary in the field of aviation, an outspoken advocate of vegetarianism and economic reform, and the founder of a pseudo-scientific crackpot philosophy called Lawsonomy. Born Again, his only novel, is a bizarre, delirious, and delightfully silly utopian science-fiction novel that lays the groundwork for the philosophy that would later dominate Lawson's life. It tells the story of John Convert, a wayward, seafaring soul (based loosely on Lawson, minus the conveniently symbolic initials) who is tossed overboard by his crewmen after a physical altercation. Convert awakens on an island inhabited by a race of superhuman giants -- called the Sagemen -- who slumber in their subterranean city. He then meets Arletta, a giantess who takes Convert on a journey that will change his life in ways too fantastically strange to imagine. (Introduction by ChuckW)
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10 - Chapter X , 11 - Chapter XI , 12 - Chapter XII , 13 - Chapter XIII , 14 - Chapter XIV , 15 - Chapter XV , 16 - Chapter XVI , 17 - Chapter XVII , 18 - Chapter XVIII , 19 - Chapter XIX , 20 - Chapter XX , 21 - Chapter XXI , 22 - Chapter XXII , 23 - Chapter XXIII , 24 - Chapter XXIV , 25 - Chapter XXV , 26 - Chapter XXVI , 27 - Chapter XXVII , 28 - Chapter XXVIII , 29 - Chapter XXIX , 30 - Chapter XXX , 31 - Chapter XXXI , 32 - Chapter XXXII , 33 - Chapter XXXIII , 34 - Epilogue (Part 1) , 35 - Epilogue (Part 2) and Stray Shots