About D.R. Delazar

The namesake and inspiration for DELAZAR.NET, D.R. Delazar was an accomplished psychiatrist, psychologist, philosopher, author, reverend, and attorney. At the age of twenty, he graduated with highest honors from the Chicago Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS), obtaining an A.B. in Chemical Lobotomization. By twenty-five, he achieved the rank of Senior Lobotomist (not to be confused with his former role as Assistant Geriatric Lobotomist) at the Midwestern Center for Cranial Liberation (MCCL).

Although lauded for his achievements in the field, including the first successful fetal lobotomy, Delazar became disillusioned with his practice. He spent two decades writing his first book, "On Progress: The Systematic Destruction of the Unfamiliar" (1962) while continuing to work as a lobotomist. The hefty two-thousand page polemic introduced Delazar's pessimistic ideology to the philosophical and medical communities, who derided his work as simultaneously unempirical and overly complex.

By this time, the practice of lobotomization was largely discontinued and Delazar was let go from his practice after performing more than 50,000 lobotomies across twenty-five years. With his new-found freedom, Delazar continued to write, publishing short stories in science fiction and horror magazines to supplement his income while working on his more lengthy philosophical texts. Some of Delazar's most acclaimed works were written in this time, including "My Darkest Dreams" (1967) and "The Affair" (1971).

In 1988, Delazar completed his magnum opus, "I Praised the Dead." Spanning nine volumes, this epic philosophical text represents Delazar's deepest embrace of pessimistic ideology. Touching upon nearly every aspect of our "pitiful, desperate" existence, Delazar proves that life is nothing more than an eternal, indestructible cycle of suffering and despair. Shortly after the publication of "I Praised the Dead," Delazar completely disappeared from public life and was never heard from again. In 2013, Delazar's decaying corpse was discovered in the wilderness. He was buried in an unmarked grave with no ceremony.