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 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
“Aug. 19th, 10:30 p.m.: Bill joins Lindsey and me and we begin a long and joyful conversation, rich in topics, that rolls until the closing of the ‘Med’ at midnight, rolls down the street to the ‘Au Coquelet’ open till two, where I have wine and t...
3 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As Jonathan decided this would be another holiday, he spent a portion of it cooking and serving them meals and trying to entertain them in between. They weren’t much used to leisure and had no idle pastimes, so he taught them the game o...
2 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A whole crowd of noisy housemates in the common room. The room on Emerson street was uncomfortably small. The common area, right outside the door to it was often busy with five other residents, all young students trying to finish school. It had a...
2 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
the workshop In the following days Jonathan's first care was to plant a large enough garden of vegetables to get his colony through the year. He decided it was also time to explore the surrounding hills to the north and east,...
1 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Between pleasure trips, my part-time business affairs were rolling along like clockwork. My large amounts of free time were devoted to reading whole swaths of literature. My reflections on the world around me and on life, a long time ripening, wer...
1 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
They made camp for three days and began going through each structure together, Jonathan telling them what to look for. In the houses there were cans of food and many pens and pencils and all sorts of interesting items which they couldn’...
1 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In July I took an eighteen day trip to the East coast with Lindsey, (in our changed but cordial relationship) to visit her parents, my friends in Boston and my family in N.F. She’d been calling me at Louie’s place in June and we agreed on the adve...
31 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In the morning when the youths awoke, they stepped out of their tents to find Jonathan sitting over the hole and going through a large stack of books, heaped up beside the open coffin. Simon was the first to approach, and as he did Jona...
31 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I’ve never had friends I would have to pander to or go out of my way to please or put a mask on when they came by. Some say you have to work at friendship to make it good. I believe just the opposite. If it doesn’t come naturally and without any e...
