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ESSAY ON A THEME FROM PROUST’S À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU
The following essay is experimental in that I have begun with a translation of a section of the novel, In Search Of Lost Time (À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu) which I then paraphrased, concluding with not Proust’s assessment of the artist’s mind, but with my own. Continue reading
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THE WHIRLING LOGS
Cosmogonic myths differ from Hero myths, and then again from Legend. Paul Bunyan is legendary. Finn McCool is heroic. Whirling Logs was originally a creation myth. Continue reading
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SOLID GROUND
This story is from a work in progress titled MULEGÉ, a novel. Not a novel, though; maybe not prose. Poetry? Liminal, it is. Like the tides, the words come and go. Continue reading
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THE THUMB OF KNOWLEDGE
Myths are ubiquitous. These quintessential stories have flourished everywhere throughout the inhabited world from the earliest traces of language to the present glut of artificial intelligence. Continue reading
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BASHO Haiku
All translators face similar issues. Regardless, several good translations of Bashō’s work exist. Withered Grass serves up a very limited selection of the poet’s work; and the translations are impressionistic. Continue reading
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JUST TEA
The old motor home stood with hood propped open, rusted fender prominent, tires with but a vestige of tread, sidewalls cracked, appearing abandoned save for the two wooden stools and small table with tea service set upon its varnished surface. The woman, as slowly became apparent for, at first glance, he had mistaken her for… Continue reading
