I am educated in the Western Classical Tradition, B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in Latin and Greek, English major, one year at U. of Toronto, studied under Alain Renoir and Northrop Frye, read most classics full time for many years after university in French, English, Latin and Greek to the modern day. I am interested in the near future of technology, what changes it imposes upon our heritage and character as humans. Short stories and Essays are my medium.
14 hours ago 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The red dress The dark clouds gathered over the month of November and finally the storm burst one night in one loud thunderclap. It wasn’t the end. It was the beginning of tearful apologies on one’s knees and pitiful whimpering. I’d never seen thi...
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I could see right away that these people were not Indians. Nor were they scrupulously white. Their skins were tan and without ointment. We could see this because the men were shirtless and in shorts. The women also wore shorts and co...
23 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Paris, city of love. Dave told me he became a heroin addict some five years earlier while visiting Amsterdam for six months. His parents were rich and he said his grandmother was one of the richest women in Israel. He was an only child, no sibli...
23 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
By summer we’d reached flatlands, once the farmlands of America. Now they were grasslands dotted with woods and lakes and crisscrossed with streams. In some places we came upon forests of young trees. The rainfall of the last decade,...
23 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The line at the Methadone clinic. The only other people we met in those four months was our neighbor, Felicia and her three-year-old daughter. She lived in the unit next to ours. She was in her early twenties, a little overweight but sexy, and our...
22 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The chief and I, our five scouts, spent a much more active winter. When weather permitted, we set off with guns to hunt and explore the surrounding hills. We constructed snowshoes, and soon after wooden skies, as much for our amusement...
22 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Datsun 240Z As one enters the underworld, I realized, there begins a whole different way of looking at things, a new perspective, as complicated as the difference between checkers and chess. Human dealings and relationships grow infinitely more co...
21 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
“I am continuing my narrative,” (he wrote) “after a two-week delay, caused by my running out of paper. I now have a plentiful supply, but also a small group of followers to superintend, such is the twisting of fate. But I expect to f...
21 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Looks like Dave, only better dressed. We took the drive in my Volare to the flatlands of Alameda and pulled into the parking lot of a cheap, long, two-story motel. It was one of those places you could rent rooms by the week at a much lower rate, w...
20 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Stream and valley floor (the reason I now post pictures in color is that color and richness now enter the lives of Jonathan's disciples) The next morning Jonathan gave his followers a tour of his estate. As he led them up the hill to...
