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  • I Am Cultivating the Faculty of Patient Expectancy

    In the very early Fifties I saw Alec Guinness and Yvonne DeCarlo in “The Captain’s Paradise.” I believe that is the title. What is important is that the bigamous captain, Guniness, has a wife in two ports. When he observes one in his presence he whispers the above title words to a friend when asked […]

  • On Having and Holding This Mobius Strip of Ifs

    A few days ago I received the initial fifteen free copies from the publisher of my new book.  Always exciting, fulfilling, intellectually and emotionally nourishing to see one’s new book fill up a box. I reached in for my first copy and relished the delightful  rich royal blues of the new cover with a mobius strip as […]

  • First Review of “This Mobius Strip of Ifs” by Shirley Roe, AllBooks Review

    July 2011 Before I begin, I will state that I am a huge fan of Mathias Freese. His novel, The i Tetralogy, sits in a place of honor on my bookshelf as one of the books I shall never forget. This Mobius Strip of Ifs is a collection of essays written by the author over […]

  • Slave

    Published in The Del Sol Review Winter 2012 #18   The “Everlasting Delays” Issue From “I Truly Lament” a collection of short stories to be published 2012 by Mathias Freese The most appalling defeat in the camps was the absence of beauty. Regimentation was all, an artist without a palette. Animal life had fled. Occasionally […]