Joseph Conrad’s Chthonic Folly
Joseph Conrad started writing relatively late in life. He drew heavily from a long career as master mariner in the era of European, eastern expansion. In A Personal Record he tells of the first...
View ArticleThe Beethoven Conspiracy
The crows have the runs. They drop an astonishing amount of blackberry-colored crap onto Old Hand’s deck from their perch in the spreaders. Ah, late Summer. In Admiral Smythe’s Sailor’s Word Book, I...
View ArticleThe Morning Pages and the Secret Sharer’s Hat
I’ve been going over my morning pages from 2012. The morning pages were introduced by Julie Cameron in The Artist’s Way. Basically, you write 3 pages first thing every morning whether you feel like...
View ArticleOld Han’s Indonesian Voyage–part 4. I meet the Great Marlow
Soon, having to pump the bilges, I made my way to the back of the Stygian nightclub where I saw a distinguished, bearded gent who sat before an old Underwood typewriter. His gaunt frame mummified in...
View ArticleThe Morning Pages and the Secret Sharer’s Hat
I’ve been going over my morning pages from 2012. The morning pages were introduced by Julie Cameron in The Artist’s Way. Basically, you write 3 pages first thing every morning whether you feel like...
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