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.
5 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It's high time, I think, to look back a few more years and relate what I have been putting off in this narrative, that is, a brief history of the fall, and the first causes that brought on our revolution. It was a horrible time...
5 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
One task of my group was to lay out three continuous white lines that marked the borders and the center of our new road. It was an important job, guiding the crews that followed behind, and I worked closely with the chief engineer to...
5 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Breakfast Nook “Friday March 2nd, 1984: Friday night I partied, first at ‘Brennan’s pub’, where we had good talk (I think with Jim), (drug aided) about relationships. Then over to Steve’s at 10:30 for more lines, but duller talk, and then at t...
4 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Highway repair What most engaged me was the coming announcement. A great council had been gathered in the east that winter to map out a new course for the faithful and draw up an agenda for the next decade. It’d taken half a year to se...
4 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My one existing picture of Lindsay, my partner for eight months but many dozens of adventures, and many dangers, July 1985, and my mother. A preface to my meeting and falling in love with Lindsey. I wonder why I never met and fell in love with a h...
4 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Those black marks that one day began appearing on people’s skin, the first symptom of the plague, took a far greater toll on those they spared than on those they killed. They blackened our minds and left us crazed victims of some divin...
3 Mar 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
My new crew The day was just dawning and a cool mist revived me just enough to open my eyes. The streets were deserted. I could see in the faint light that these men were in rags and guessed that they must be "lickers". The...
3 Mar 2023 6 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The infamous mezzanine, my think tank. This man was one of my longest and intellectually closest friends. I met him in the cafe Mediterranean in Berkeley when I was in the midst of my nightly book readings and school homework, just starting to le...
3 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Hiram waiting for my return CHAPTER FOUR I woke up to the sensation of Ben shaking my shoulder. My head was aching. It was the second hour of morning and the family were just preparing to go to the church service and on to work. They...
2 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Patrick, the bookbinder, (or ‘Paddy’) was a good twenty years older than Bones and me when we first met him at the Plough in ‘77’. He was there almost every evening of the week, sipping a few pints of warm Guinness, (the only place you could get i...
