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.
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...
2 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The old man sitting across from us was a puzzle too, his survival, his serenity a thing to admire. Since we’d done most of the talking we asked him politely if he would care to share some of his own history with us, Sarah and me, and he did, not h...
31 Jan 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We drove north through the state of Washington, no longer a state, just a name on a map that had no relevance, then east on highway ninety, the route I came to the west coast eight years earlier, call me sentimental. But we proceeded at a snails p...
28 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Then again, she was a beguiling creature, two women in one. I thought about it late into the night, alone in a room with a bed I had set up for just that purpose, meditation. It led me to realize that our present little society, with the demograph...
26 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Strange days Many strange things happened in the following days, Ida attending her own funeral, all of us calling Juliet by her name when it was Ida inside partially controlling her. She took the reins of this control slowly, even meekly, one migh...
25 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We had one potential candidate. One of our women in her early twenties, Ida, had given birth recently to a healthy female babe but had suffered extreme bleeding in the delivery. Abdominal pains continued days after the birth and we neither had the...
