Autobiography

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The Dwarf

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,...

A true Artist

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...

More LSD adventures

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...

A superannuated man

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...

The elevator man

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...

The infernal marijuana machine

6 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Our pre-bong bong apparatus In the room next to mine, 806, resided George F. and Rick Coffin.  The reason I mention his last name is that we all thought it funny at the time.  But, sadly enough, (as he was a very nice guy), he died in a car accide...

Idiot savants

5 Dec 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Grant's girl. So I quit attending two classes without a qualm.  My grades for that quarter were two ‘F’s’ and a ‘B’ in the history course.  On the drive back home that quarter break I told my father, with a degree of apprehension, my grades.  But...

A band of rebels.

4 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  In the summer of 1972 I graduated high school but didn’t attend the ceremony.  I was sitting in the back of Rich’s car with my friends, smoking joints as he drove near our high school.  That day the third Santana album came out and we were eager t...

Books and God

3 Dec 2022 6 minute read 2 comments Diomedes

  I’ve described my boyhood friends, my hobbies and habits.  But before I enter upon the college arena I’ll briefly address two more topics, religion and books. My parents were not religious, never mentioned it, never mentioned church.  But my frien...

Walking through glass

2 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Sad Geena. (actually Patricia Highsmith) At eighteen I went off to Berkeley, to the dorms and by pure chance was assigned to a floor of such wild rebels, tasting their first freedom from home and any rules, each one of us encouraging our floor mat...