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.
3 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This is a continuation of my science fiction novel AI. The links to the rest of it are below. Sorry for the eight month gap in continuing it, but work and a serious back injury got in the way. This time we set out at a faster pace along the 90 a...
17 Oct 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I've never had a babysitter. I don't know what that experience would be like, some strange or half familiar girl six or eight years older than me, regulating my few hours between dinner and bed, like an omnipotent queen, making my dinner and command...
28 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When I was young and in my early twenties, I mean, after having spent five years studying at the fine academy of Berkeley in California in the seventies and read so many great books by great authors, (many of them not assigned by any course I took b...
26 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
What I love about this site is that articles you write about people or topics far away in time or space can elicit replies, totally unexpected, from others where you've touched a sensitive chord of affinity. This just happened to me, where a...
24 Sep 2024 3 minute read 4 comments Diomedes
Just finished reading an interesting new submission on multitasking. Here is an excerpt and my thoughts on it. Many researchers point out that what we call multi-tasking is, in fact, tasks switching. For example, in it is pointed out that: “Multit...
17 Sep 2024 1 minute read 5 comments Diomedes
I've been thinking long and hard on some possible purpose we might all share which will unite all of our warring factions to a peaceful and combined effort worthy of our intellect. We've come this far from apes and are now on the frontiers of sp...
15 Aug 2024 1 minute read 4 comments Diomedes
Why is learning Latin important? Robert O'Reilly Journeyman Electrician (1982–present) Before I learned Latin at U.C. Berkeley in the seventies I was an English major and I happened to read this passage from Samuel Johnson’s one travel bo...
2 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This is the title of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, some twenty lines long, about two of his aunts, seated in chairs beside him, picking lice out of his seventeen year old, bushy hair as he is on a visit to them, half-way to Paris, to another poet, Paul...
20 Mar 2024 1 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
How do I say "you are so beautiful” in Latin? Robert O'Reilly author of three novels, 'Roland House II' and 'The Whitening', 'Pandemica' all here on Publish Ox, links below. There is a beautiful poem in old Latin, a tombstone inscriptio...
5 Feb 2024 4 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Ted knew our mission and had been busy working on a device, a scanner the size of a shoe box that could pick up the full spectrum of frequencies with a range of many miles and tell us if we were in the vicinity of any robot in communication with o...
