Category: The Seawall
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The Skinny on the Parable of the Seawall
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For the past two months or so I’ve been working on two books simultaneously which is a first for me. “Working Through the Holocaust” is a work in progress, a grouping of stories that have come “easily” to me as if I had to rid myself of excess somewhere in…
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I Really Don’t Know Me and I Really Don’t Know You
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Recent interactions on a family basis have caused me to reflect. I thought I knew that person and I thought I knew me and what I have realized, if that is the word, is that neither that person nor I really know one another. I am not surprised at all.…
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Cameras as Remembrances of Things Past : “O insupportable and touching loss!” — Shak.
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It was a Kodak Bantam camera with a lens that folded out on a rail, very charming and dainty, with little metal knobs to set the f-stops and one to set the shutter. You could put it into the palm of your hand like some inlaid treasure of inestimable value. Because it…
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Things Kazantzakis
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In The i Tetralogy I use a quotation from Kazantzakis’ Report to Greco in at least two places. It reads: “Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break!” It all comes to rest in that sterling quotation mark. It is one of three quotations that Kazantzakis uses in the…