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.
16 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When we arrived in Japan Dora told me that she would go ahead and settle matters with Pan by herself, that he was dangerous and might try to kill me on first sight. I couldn't argue with that. We stopped a mile from the grounds of the robot factory...
10 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We drove north through central India, into the highlands, not looking for any hubs, but to escape the torrid climate. The roads became winding as we entered the cool refreshing air of the Himalayas. The scenic vistas also repaid this huge, three wee...
14 Sep 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
With this latest revelation my mind seemed to split in two, with two opposite roads to travel. I continued mechanically, like a robot, on the course I had been on, aiding my robot companion Dora on her mission. But a debate was beginning to play out...
7 Sep 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I noticed that Dora was often silent as we neared Athens, while Kim and I gabbed away. She seemed to listen to us with a coy smile on her lips, either amused at our talk and not wanting to interrupt it, or else lost in her own, private deliberatio...
6 Sep 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We were now three months into our road trip across Europe, under Dora's guidance. We'd visited seven hubs in the northern nations and found that four of them were in tatters. But they were partially restorable, as Dora insisted, and at each of thes...
6 Sep 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
One thing that confused me was Dora's recent attraction to Kim. It was easy to understand why Kim welcomed this affection with open arms. She'd lost her mother at five, then lived with only her father in the woods. After that came almost speechless...
31 Aug 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The hub in Dusseldorf was intact, flourishing in fact, just cut off from its brother hubs, the all-powerful network now permanently destroyed. The droids went about on their simple duties. The lights were all on and the CPU's spinning rapidly, alm...
31 Aug 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The first building I explored was the library. That was my cathedral. It had no stained-glass images hinting strange and awe-inspiring stories as the sunlight illuminated them, brought them to life, as it brings everything to life on this planet. My...
16 Aug 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Thinking is a miraculous thing, human thinking, that is. I don't know by what environmental challenges it was formed over the millennia, chasing various herds of meat with our spears, darting this way and that way across the Serengeti plains. But...
16 Aug 2025 3 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
One trick of human intelligence that has yielded huge advances in science is our ability imagine the mirror opposite of what we are attempting. While Galileo perfected the first telescope in 1609, lense-crafters in the Netherlands were making the...
