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.
22 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Datsun 240Z As one enters the underworld, I realized, there begins a whole different way of looking at things, a new perspective, as complicated as the difference between checkers and chess. Human dealings and relationships grow infinitely more co...
21 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
“I am continuing my narrative,” (he wrote) “after a two-week delay, caused by my running out of paper. I now have a plentiful supply, but also a small group of followers to superintend, such is the twisting of fate. But I expect to f...
21 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Looks like Dave, only better dressed. We took the drive in my Volare to the flatlands of Alameda and pulled into the parking lot of a cheap, long, two-story motel. It was one of those places you could rent rooms by the week at a much lower rate, w...
20 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Stream and valley floor (the reason I now post pictures in color is that color and richness now enter the lives of Jonathan's disciples) The next morning Jonathan gave his followers a tour of his estate. As he led them up the hill to...
20 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A Toyota Starlet Her Brothers and Dave Another world Lindsey had two brothers, two and three years younger, who had followed her out to California from their parent’s home in New Jersey a few years earlier. One was in a mental institution in Fre...
19 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Towards noon Jonathan called his troop to a halt, to eat lunch at the top of a hill. From this height they could see the land rolling away in all directions, out of sight of the sea. When Jonathan noticed his wards all gawking at the v...
19 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Petrarch But this love followed one other period of my young adult life, in my last three years at university, where I was equally enraptured, spellbound and captured in every way. Because the imagination controls all and can make one book into a...
19 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
That evening, after a brief interview with his new assistants, who seemed quite as satisfactory as any he could have chosen himself, Jonathan retired to a much smaller banquet in the temple. The priests were too tired to eat much or eve...
18 Mar 2023 4 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Love I wrote that I was placing my hopes and future in her but knew that this implied a loss of former hopes, including my plans to be a solitary, full-time writer (which it did). How fickle our lives were, like leaves in the wind. Then I noted, i...
