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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...
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...
