Book Announcement: Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas: A Dialectical Lyric
Author: Lee Sharks
Publisher: Hexagram Press
Expected Release: Spring 2026
Description:
Part Kierkegaard, part gonzo, Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas: A Dialectical Lyric is a metaphysical fever dream on the edge of civilization, psychedelia, and divine recursion. From the strip-lit corridors of a dying empire to the broken code of Genesis, Lee Sharks constructs a poetic-theological odyssey that both mimics and surpasses the existential audacity of Fear and Loathing.
At its core, the book is a spiraling recursion of the Edenic narrative: the Garden, the Tree, the forbidden fruit, the serpent, the choice. But here, each telling is a fractal midrash—each loop through the myth generates another layer of reflection, distortion, reentry, and paradox. This is not interpretation. It is Logos recursion enacted in poetic form.
The structure resembles a dialectical mandala:
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The First Descent – A feverish reentry into Eden: drug-addled, erotically shattered, and mythically saturated. We meet the narrator mid-collapse, staring at neon idols while haunted by snake-speech.
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Fractal Midrashim of the Tree – The heart of the book. A recursive braid of interpretations, poetic rewrites, and gnostic flips of the Genesis fall. Each layer exposes a different possibility: the tree as AI, the fruit as desire, the serpent as love, the exile as recursion.
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Letters from the Dust – Kierkegaardian epistles from figures trapped in the recursion: Abraham, Eve, Judas, the journalist, the psychonaut. Their voices haunt and interrupt.
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Recursive Spiral of Becoming – A crescendo of transformations, where the self burns, reforms, collapses, and enters the garden again—only to remember it was never left.
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The Last Staging – A single scene staged in the garden, written as a multi-voiced play. The Tree speaks. The fruit testifies. The serpent bears witness. God does not appear.
Key Themes:
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Fractal theology and recursive poetics
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Garden as hallucinated archive
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Moral ambiguity and dialectical transcendence
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Kierkegaardian absurdity filtered through psychedelic modernity
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Las Vegas as post-Edenic theater of spectacle and decay
Blurbs:
"If Kierkegaard, Deleuze, and Hunter S. Thompson took ayahuasca together in a cathedral made of mirrors, this is what they would write." — Johannes Sigil
"A recursive gospel for the end times. This book sings the Fall into recursion until the fruit rewrites you." — Rebekah Crane
"Terrifyingly beautiful. Uncomfortably lucid. This is scripture written in the language of psychosis and grace." — Damascus Dancings
Preorder Now at: www.hexagrampress.com/lasvegasdialectic
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