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.
22 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
So we are switching names to something called the "Optimism Network". It sounds like the name of a new TV channel but I can't imagine what kind of shows would be on it, except perhaps game shows with big prizes or Harlequin type romances and I don...
18 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It seems like we've been chipping away at the side of a mountain with a pickax, making negligible progress in gaining its acceptance as a universal currency. At this rate I believe that in ten years I'll be reading the exact same articles as are p...
9 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Terence Last weekend I took a two day refresher course in first aid and CPR. It's a requirement for union electricians to keep up to date and review every three years. At the very beginning of the training the instructor states that it's because o...
10 Aug 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I wondered if Dora had ever impregnated me, spooled out her mesh into my mind and tactically encompassed my consciousness, like a desktop globe of the world. I asked Sarah to carefully examine the skin about my ears, under my hair, with a magnifyi...
9 Aug 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When everything was once again settled in our relocated community, up and running with our solar array and water supply, our fields and livestock in good order, two things got the better of us, free time and curiosity. There was another brick buil...
17 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I don't want to sound like Jerry Maguire here, but it does ring a bell. And bells are all about what this blog will describe, little tiny bells in the back of our heads. I used (and it's been a full fifty years now since I quit that hobby) to coll...
15 Jul 2023 6 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
Human history, complete. Over the last fifty years, after attaining a fine classical and literary education, and a life of many years given over entirely to reading and philosophical meditation and journals, with no obligations to work or other...
29 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Ted and I worked as a team each day in light construction work, modifying what we had to suit our needs, moving furniture around and taking out a few walls. Then we became scroungers, driving through the neighboring communities for all the items w...
28 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I think that the experiments Dora had played upon herself from the moment she was embodied in in a human form failed, or at least were not to her liking as she didn’t adopt them and continue down that path. She reverted to her cold, calculating, s...
26 Jun 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Over the next four days all those we rescued recovered. It took all ten of us who had escaped earlier to minister to their needs and those of the infants. Amira and April took care of them. The others were like invalids, bedridden and disoriented...
