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.
24 Dec 2022 6 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Meeting Mary: In the first week of my new friendship with Bones there occurred another chance meeting that would radically alter our futures. Within a few hours of meeting me Bones knew that I was a deep and enthusiastic student of history and l...
23 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Since I don't think very many people in North America are outside right now, I'll post two articles instead of one. A good crowd at the 'Plough' I think it was that very first day that Phil introduced me to Rick W., or ‘Bones’ as everyone called h...
23 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Telegraph Avenue in its glory days Berkeley, a tiny island in the stream, the brightest jewel in the crown that is California, the Mecca of the West for the intellectual few, Berkeley, my home. What a colorful contrast it is to all the cities and...
22 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
magic mushrooms When I was living in Berkeley a few months later, surrounded with a new set of friends, I was given a nickname I never liked, but people called me ‘random Rob’, probably because of all the strange things I would quote out of books...
21 Dec 2022 6 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
About ten days before we were to leave, with a dozen of these oblong-shaped things, one afternoon, sitting in the library, I decided to try a whole one. I didn’t realize it then, but that experiment would radically alter my life, almost like a lo...
20 Dec 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Before I leave off on my trip across the continent and down the West coast, (before I leave off entirely) I would like to recount a memory of my grandfather still vivid in my mind after all these decades. I was six years old. My father and mother d...
19 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My passport picture at twenty three, taken just before I left school forever. I knew I wasn’t the half-dazed, feather in the wind airhead she was. I was unusually meek and circumspect and slow to come to any life-changing decision, prone to ponde...
18 Dec 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Then Dennis returned in his far-travelled volkswagon, the lightning rod, the catalyst to any dangerous mix of discontent. He’d come back to Toronto mainly to get closer to (i.e. in the pants of) a girl named Barbara. She lived with her mother and...
17 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm posting twice today because I'm arriving at a point (or you might call it a crisis) in my life where everything heats up and I move from a sedentary existence to one full of radical changes and action and even danger. My consuming love of books a...
17 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Bloor street, always busy, even in the seventies. As a bright graduate student, just beginning on a new degree, in a new place, the assignment of such a room to me, or any student, was a recipe for failure. I’m sure no administrator ever tried sl...
