In 2011 I read Charles Bukowski's Post Office and it was brilliant. He's like Orwell , not an extraneous word in the house.... and...

Most of the intellectuals I would like to meet in real life would probably be too pompous to make it enjoyable. That is not ...

Philip K Dick Fascinating.

When Melville wrote Moby Dick (a book that keeps dragging me by my hair kicking and screaming back to it) New York looked like th...

Recently I've taken to using art as a tool for the manifestation of the collective unconscious in a Jungian sense, and so as Moby D...

Lurking around Youtube on the subject of Moby Dick last night/this morning I came across Cyrus Patel - Professor of English Literature a...

About an hour and a half in total but not quite seamless in its story telling or as riveting as the great man's poetry. However ...

An upbeat talk with John Lash on Radio Free Humanity with Frater X. Despite the visual I've used, it's not all about cont...

There is much to be learned from Robert Graves' I Claudius . Who the States deems too stupid and insufficiently polished to pa...

I'll never forget the briefest and best description of Jack Kerouac's, On The Road, given by a young man who like me was re...

Popular with Gandhi, Einstein, Herman Hesse and Emerson try to read  The Bhagavad Gita  as it was written. It's not fiction and it'...

I will never be of this calibre. Though as a card carrying, smile plagiarising 'Ye Olde Generalist' I notice he inadvertentl...