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.
29 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Ready to take the plunge, Claire. That night, after putting Rollo to bed, Claire and I retired to the library for a talk. I lit the fire, and as I poured myself a glass of cognac, Claire asked for one too. I knew right away something serious was...
28 Aug 2022 11 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Aptly named reprogramming center, commons.wikimedia.org So now we had to avoid crowds and public events, busy city streets, malls and parks and stadiums. We were shut in, restrained in our activities like a dog on a leach. For the first time we...
28 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Mind Police, dawn.com I made phone calls. Charlie was reluctant at first, but as we talked he mentioned his knee was bothering him again and I told him this would cure it instantly, so he came. Monique was hesitant too, but when we told her of t...
27 Aug 2022 10 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
The Meeting, 123rf.com The next morning Claire and I were driving across the Hayward bridge to Silicon Valley. We’d arranged a meeting with Hans at his shop and told him to invite over his ten best candidates for our group, people with influence,...
27 Aug 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Deserted waterline, thebolditalic.com What happened to Hans. “The first thing I remember was waking up half-drowned in a bag half-open and splashing in cold, shallow, stinking water in the dark beside a rotting pier. I crawled the short distance...
26 Aug 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A quantum computer, vox.com So the work began in that ironclad room, code work by day, with Claire, Nicolo, Jason, Jason’s friend Tim, and Jaime, sitting around the table and designing the architecture to a strange new language. By nights we reass...
26 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The think tank, pinterest.de This thought made me feel better towards her and even myself, which elevated me to another plateau: “You have all the diplomatic conferences you sat at with presidents and all your great accomplishments, and for that,...
25 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The two Harpies, yourteenmag.com In the morning, the first day of the new year, it was little Roland waking us up. He was pulling on a handful of his mother’s hair as if it were some kind of alarm device and it was because she woke up. He had to...
25 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Rollo etsy.com As I sat in my office that night alone, drinking glass after glass of brandy, I pondered the issue some more. I thought in plain, simple terms, wanting to get to a resolution. The fact was that I feared her and loved her in equal...
24 Aug 2022 17 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
The talks begin. wallsheaven.com That night, after dinner, began the first of a long line of private conversations with Mary in the library about the last three years of my mostly missing life. It was a delicate and sensitive affair, as she was c...
