Gates of Janus gave me the impression that Brady was trying to fabricate for himself an all-powerful persona; an ubermensch, a cold-hearted killer without empathy or weakness, a daunting intellectual, a visionary, a man who sees the killer as a paragon of virtues man is too scared to see in the killer. His piece on Carl Panzram seems like the chapter he most tossed off to. He wishes so bad that he were Carl Panzram, and there's a slight hint of a sense of inferiority from Brady. He wishes he were as powerful and nearly unstoppable as he and not a man who exercised his IRON WILL and practiced his Nietzschean will to power on small children.
Sotos' piece should have been a foreword. He means to warn us that Brady's text may be outright lies or at least exaggerations; manipulations as would not be unlike a psychopath. Sotos reduces The Gates of Janus to child pornography. Nothing greater nor lesser.
You may as well read it for yourself. Brady writes not one word on crime or psychopathy as regards him and his crimes. His writings on the superiority of the killer, though, are so obviously written as to fashion a castle of grand illusion for him to possess the throne of. Brady drones on about his own superiority under the guise of examining the virtues of other killers. He lives in this otherness and uses it to define himself.
