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.
2 Jan 2023 6 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
The Niagara Falls public library in 1978, just built when I started working there. Life in Niagara Falls was dull, uneventful, friendless in fact, the life of a hermit, but rich in books and health restoring. I would work awhile then travel back t...
1 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Another day I remember vividly was one day with Suzanne. It was a bright, windy Saturday Spring morning in San Francisco, the end of March. I was already planning on leaving and needed money. I had a few semi-rare books with me and thought to sell...
31 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Something like Vicky Before I leave this period of my first revisit to Berkeley after graduation I’ll recount a few incidents that still play brightly in my thoughts, as significant episodes in my life. Her name was Vicky, (still is if she’s still...
30 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Suzanne lookalike Because of our growing local fame I was sleeping with many girls at the time, most ‘one-night stands’, at a rate of about one a week. There was one I was particularly interested in, Suzanne, the Swedish girl with a cute accent wh...
29 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Skipping ahead twelve years, John Seebach, a life-long friend and my son Will in 1989. John Seebach, though he was my favorite new friend, was not one of our most frequent visitors as he had a job as a projectionist at a small Berkeley cinema four...
28 Dec 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Now I’ll describe her exact opposite, complete in every way, Amira. She worked downstairs most afternoons with a tall, skinny, black haired Swedish girl named Suzanne, both of them lovely to behold. There was a small kitchen past the long counter...
28 Dec 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
In the many articles I've read on the potential threats that AI may pose to humans in the near future, I believe the vast majority of them are looking in the wrong direction with their prognostications. It's not some evil turn in AI that may seek...
27 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Mary Beth Over the next two months we had four or five more large, late night parties, ending when the speed ran low. I remember one was so large that we had three bands playing at the same time, one in the living room, one on the roof deck behind...
26 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
ibizabohogirl.com Her name was ‘Low River’. She wasn’t an Indian but a thorough hippy. She’d been a stewardess for many years but now with three kids she was a mom. She was about ten years older than me, in a long robe with bead jewelry, a lovel...
25 Dec 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My first new party friend, Low River. So now into the fourth week of December it was just Bones and I sitting upon mountains of pure, clean speed and living above the Starry Plough. We hadn’t made any other friends yet but we’re spending a few hou...
