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.
31 Oct 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The inferiority complex. Sanita, my ex, Back to Black. Sanita ended up choosing a large, vulgar brute, to beat her up just like I suspect her father did, a perverse psychology which I’ve seen in several, otherwise rational women. The Amy Winehouse...
30 Oct 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A new woman enters my life. My neighbor Melaina behind the bar. Then one Saturday afternoon we dropped by the Calypso and everything changed, once again, radically. When I examine the whole expanse of my life, review it, like one peering from a mo...
29 Oct 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
From broke in Newark to rich St. Thomas. Saint Thomas and cruise ships, where I had two lucrative jobs waiting, a bit different than the Y.M.C.A. in Newark. Mike insisted I do his next two bars, one came up in ninety eight and the last one a year...
28 Oct 2022 9 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
I'm two days back from my fourteen day stint at a camp in northern Ontario, a gold mine under construction called 'cote gold'. As a union electrician it was lucrative, but in other ways it was harrowing. All our work was outdoors. Stunted pine trees...
11 Oct 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Buddy My new best friend. Looks like Dee. Sarah Silverman N.Y. Times. So Buddy arrived and the three of us began work to finish the mansion, tool belts on, talking away and making great progress over the next weeks. The nature of the work w...
10 Oct 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Skill. The Heinz mansion. When that tribunal was over, with warm thanks from Victor and a promise that we’d have a part in any future work that came his way, we went back to Rincon and I foolishly poured all my profits and time into home improveme...
10 Oct 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm continuing my autobiography at infrequent intervals as I'm back at electrical work at a gold mine camp in Northern Ontario called Gogama. This might last through Christmas. For those of you who haven't read the earlier parts I'll provide links to...
30 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Epilogue After a ten day journey along the coast the caravan under Jonathan’s care reached their beloved town. They put themselves completely under his guidance, a post, he told them, that he would only assume for a short while, until their town w...
29 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The waterfront was only a few blocks away with the breeze blowing off the water protecting it from the fire. Many of the people in the streets were now running in that direction. Jonathan's group just followed the torrent of bodies. When th...
29 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was now approaching midnight. The city was asleep and it was time to act. The men lit their torches and everyone crowded to the very back of the room, while Jonathan set his charge. He wedged it under the door, lit it, and ran as fast a...
