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.
30 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Something like my little room By choosing this small room everyone could tell I wanted to be alone. And it worked its magic. I had none all summer, except one, the proverbial John Seebach, (like the prodigal son). He visited me one afternoon there...
30 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
"They're running out of paint." It didn’t take but a second for Jonathan to realize the profound implications of this statement. He wouldn’t let go of his friend's shoulder until he heard the full details of this crisis. It w...
29 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A likeness of May My journals continue in late April with a full account of my disintegrating relationship with Lindsey: “Of last Sunday night, after working the previous five days, eating and sleeping well, I had it in mind to be high, started Su...
29 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The news of this pilgrimage preceded them by about a month, through the supply ship returning from their district. Because of this forewarning they were honorably received. The Bishop of the city of ten thousand souls was a good friend...
29 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I’ve already mentioned how Lindsey lost all her eight thousand dollars of the first money we made. When she returned our relationship was stormier than ever, but we managed to work together and more than repair her loss. Soon I had triple the cash...
28 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
silver ornament It wasn’t long after these discoveries that he began his school of bookmaking. At one end of the long cabin he made a slanted table with tall stools, a scriptorium where three could sit together and copy out the contents...
28 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The old vinegar factory In March and April of 85 I slowly began to cultivate a relationship with a minor acquaintance on mine, ‘C’ already mentioned in this narrative unfavorably, but a friend of a friend, met on three or four occasions, who slowl...
27 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
They arrived on the evening of the second day to the warm welcome of the four that had stayed behind. The old priest was lodged in the new cabin and the next morning was given a grand tour of the site, with Jonathan at his side and the...
27 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Lindsey's mother, driven to drink by her children. It was during this first month of our new residence and life together, alone and without Dave, that we were paid a brief visit by Lindsey’s parents, taking a flight from New Jersey. I was at work,...
26 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
After reciting a long list of instructions to the rest of his disciples, enough to occupy them for weeks, Jonathan collected his burros, called Mary and Simon, and set out at a leisurely pace over the hills. The three of them walked clo...
