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.
16 Dec 2022 7 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Robarts library U. of Toronto I packed up my few belongings and headed home to Niagara Falls the week before Christmas. I turned my room over to my good friend Tim, sweet talking the landlady. She liked me and I’d been a good tenant there for si...
15 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A beautiful campus. The last course I took before getting kicked out of Berkeley was a graduate course in silver Latin prose. My teacher, Mr. Murgia, didn’t care about my status and let me in. About eight of us, (the others all graduate students...
14 Dec 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
That’s my review of teachers, except for the best I’ve saved for last. I few good ones more than compensated for a dozen mediocre ones. And the mediocre didn’t bother me that much because I concentrated on the literature, not them. They were...
13 Dec 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Dwinelle Hall, where the classics department was located. But back to my Spring quarter of 1975. I signed up for the Greek workshop and searched for a new residence, as Hiram and Strange were going separate ways. And I found it, quite luckily, a...
12 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The third friend I made in the Med., and the most important to my mental growth over the next decade, was Bill. He was some ten years older than me and often sat in that mezzanine at night, chain smoking and drinking cup after cup of coffee, just...
11 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Believe it or not Joel looked very much the same, his hair a little darker and more curly. The second friend I made at the Med. in my college years was Joel, a dwarf. He was in the mathematics department at Berkeley. He was about four feet tall,...
10 Dec 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Albrecht Durer. I made three great friends in that mezzanine during these years. I wasn’t pouring over my books every second. I’d look about me now and then. The first was Bruce, an artist, ‘par excellence’. I noticed that he’d often be sittin...
9 Dec 2022 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
View from Mount Tamalpais. The mention of the LSD blotter acid brings back the memories of three acid trips I took that year, all outdoors and with my dorm friends from the year before. Craig had a Volkswagen beetle and one Sunday we set out on a...
8 Dec 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
John Muir in Yosemite. I’ve been going through old papers and found my final transcript of courses and grades. First off, I’m amazed to see a number of courses I’ve completely forgotten about over the years. I see that I took a course in comparat...
7 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Phil, one of my best friends for years, and as you can see, stoner. Richard and Doug once tied up our very pretty, twenty-year-old, dorm manager to a chair and put her in a closet screaming for several hours. She’d come up from the fifth floor wh...
