The enclosed novel was initially copyrighted on 7/10/80 as an unpublished work. It is a roman a clef and allegory foreshadowing the coming AIDS plague and attendant political/social events by a then twenty-something WI attorney with ties to political insiders in WI. To the author's knowledge, it is the first public record, albeit mostly in 'coded language,' adumbrating the 'gay plague' foreseen by gay political and academic insiders.
Simon simply wants to succeed in life financially and makes the most out of the hand life has dealt him. The theme of this novel is the interplay between denial and rationalizaton.
Book I: The Walls of Ilium, and Book II, The Trojan Horse
The enclosed novel was originally copyrighted in 8/78 and 9/79 as an unpublished work. By 1977, the author learned of the death of a Danish missionary doctor to Zaire from a strange immune suppression, speculated to have been caused by a new infectious agent; and, in early 1979, the author was told of several cases of kaposi's sarcoma, the so-called "gay cancer" indicative of what would later be called AIDS, diagnosed in young NYC gay males. Hence the "vague forebodings" expressed in The Illusion Dwellers: Book I, The Walls of Ilium, and Book II, The Trojan Horse.