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.
12 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Something like Christina. It wasn’t quite as crazy an idea as it seems. When I was in my Latin intensive workshop four years earlier one of my classmates, Ted, had told me of a program they called ‘cryptology’. He’d taken it himself in the beaut...
11 Jan 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Death trap Back to February of 1978, still a youth and foolish, but with Classical excerpts constantly flooding my mind, providing illustrations and highlights to every step I took. “Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in seQuam quod ridiculos hom...
10 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Acid party. Eddie and his girlfriend, Rich and his girl: We had one wild party at this cottage. I spent a half of my Christmas money on some liquid L.S.D., (such were my priorities). There were to be about twenty guests so I mixed twenty stron...
9 Jan 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The meridian sunshine of real Bohemian life: I visited my friends in Berkeley and found that Bones and May had a place for me to stay, rent free. It was a small cottage in the backyard of a two-story house on seventh street, a few blocks off Unive...
8 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jackpot. The food stamps kept Huey and me going a little longer, but the sad fact was that being out of money was beginning to take a toll on our spirits. The few dollars we made from giving tours we spent on gas, because we had a new use for our...
7 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Huey Huey was a few years younger than me. He had long, blond hair, shoulder length, was very fit and handsome and had mild manners. He had little formal education but had traveled widely, vagabond style, because he’d been for many years a Gratefu...
6 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
North end of Alameda, decades ago. Zack kept his word. One of the first rules of being a successful entrepreneur is to always keep all your pawns and assets in play. Otherwise they drift off and disappear. He was also somewhat of a scavenger and w...
5 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A trailer full of pot I was only there a little over a week when I was offered some work by Zack. He didn’t seem to do much at all but he had people working for him at all sorts of under the table jobs. One of these was delivering cords of firewoo...
4 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Annie I was seeing Annie every few nights. She was busy with a daytime job, I forget what, something secretarial. I fell back into my old habits of checking out the libraries and bookshops and reading in coffee shops after each day’s finds.When Se...
3 Jan 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The real Norma, a few years later. I made two new friends in that short period who would change my life, and began a part time job as doorman for the bands that played at the Plough, twice a week, the off nights, Wednesdays and Thursdays so I rare...
