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How Robert Lewis Stevenson and Santacon gave us Fight Club (and far right self-actualization)

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Jason Prechtel
Oct 12, 2024
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We can't talk about Fight Club — the book, the film, the enduring cultural imprint — without first talking about Suicide Club.

Taking its name from Robert Lewis Stevenson's 1878 short story collection, the San Francisco group formed almost a century later in 1977. And while the fictional Suicide Club was about a Bohemian prince infiltrating a London secr…

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