The Leap!, the lone novel penned by Bill Hopkins, the man of mystery who was friend to both Jonathan Bowden and Colin Wilson, has just been brought back into print by Dunce Books! and is currently available through Underworld Amusements. The Leap! was also recently reviewed by Greg Johnson. Is its main character, Peter Plowart, an earnest portrait of a Nietzschean Übermensch who aspires to dictatorial power and is willing to wade through oceans of blood to attain it, or is he rather a satire of a Right-wing narcissistic sociopath with Dark Triad traits who can act as a warning to the dissident Right to avoid such leaders? Grab a copy for yourself and find out.
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Regardless of whether Hopkins intended Peter Plowart to be a hero or a joke, he certainly couldn’t have picked a more buffoonish name for his character.
I might give this book a try. Writing about fictional movement idiots is fun. I’ve never read this book but it’s reminiscent of something I wrote in my early twenties about a rivalry within the ascendant far-right National American Workingman’s Party, and Hopkins’ Plowart reminds me of my character Nicholas Stuart “Nick” Fish, a loathsome narcissistic trust-fund activist and secret homosexual pedophile with big-fish-in-a-small-pond syndrome, whose botched plot to direct his meathead enforcer Joseph Beau Wordin to murder his primary rival within the party, Wolfgang Lee Jones, leads to his downfall. He’s a smaller part of a bigger plot, however, and I’m no professional writer, so he just kind of disappears in an unsatisfying way, and there’s no real mystery or comedy involved. I would like to return to writing/finishing this story at some point but it became all too sprawling. A book like Hopkins’ might be good to stoke those fires a bit.
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