Novels and ‘the holy contour of life’
In his 30 point Belief and Technique for modern prose Jack Kerouac exhorts writers to ‘Believe in the holy contour of life’ and to be ‘Writer-Director of earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven.’ It […]
Philosophy
No truth’s a panacea
Just sometimes the big questions turn out not to be all that important. One such issue to get my goat lately is the battle between absolutists and relativists, each a pejorative from the opposite perspective […]
The Persimmon: An Introduction and Call for Artists
Against the dim of the waning sun stands tall the shadow of the Yggdrasil. The Tree of Life dressed in dusk becomes the Tree of Death, a towering totem to the lives lived and spent- […]
Neighbours
Within a certain house, There is a basement; this dark hell breathes of blood. A dried paste covers walls and the floors, Made for paintings, decorates doors. Dying fetuses that lie upon […]