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6 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
So then she vanishes for another three months, leaving me in total limbo. I probably doted on her quite a bit in the following days because she did give me little signals that she liked me, from the warm and intimate conversations we’d had in Febr...
5 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Breakfast Nook “Friday March 2nd, 1984: Friday night I partied, first at ‘Brennan’s pub’, where we had good talk (I think with Jim), (drug aided) about relationships. Then over to Steve’s at 10:30 for more lines, but duller talk, and then at t...
4 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My one existing picture of Lindsay, my partner for eight months but many dozens of adventures, and many dangers, July 1985, and my mother. A preface to my meeting and falling in love with Lindsey. I wonder why I never met and fell in love with a h...
3 Mar 2023 6 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The infamous mezzanine, my think tank. This man was one of my longest and intellectually closest friends. I met him in the cafe Mediterranean in Berkeley when I was in the midst of my nightly book readings and school homework, just starting to le...
2 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Patrick, the bookbinder, (or ‘Paddy’) was a good twenty years older than Bones and me when we first met him at the Plough in ‘77’. He was there almost every evening of the week, sipping a few pints of warm Guinness, (the only place you could get i...
1 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
On a happier note I’ll choose my friend Jim (Jimbo) to describe next. He was a tall, broad-shouldered, all Irish, beer drinker and belcher extraordinaire, the most joyful, jovial and joking of our group and the only one who was three or four years...
1 Mar 2023 6 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
I’m tired of talk of myself, you too probably. So I’ll make a short detour to other subjects. I keep mentioning my friends in this narrative, but to the reader they are only shadowy names. So I’ll take the time now to give each one a longer or sh...
28 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Louise Brooks I ended the description of my night with Tracy with: she was home by eleven. I forgot to mention that she lived with her parents still, a definite deterrent to any of her chosen dates trying to continue their pursuit of her after sh...
28 Feb 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Dale was great in both sex and affection, the most complete woman I was graced to know, and consistently charming, thus the poems which she elicited and merited, a piece of my heart. Tracy was superlative in sex, off the charts, surpassing the wil...
27 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Zenobia The Tyranny of Beauty To compare the other one-night stand that month, in terms of sex with Tracy is like deflating a balloon with a pin. Jim invited me to a Halloween party at somebody’s house nearby, someone I didn’t know. It was a nice,...
