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Category Archives: Literature

The Decline Of Culture/Character….

February 1, 2022

Thanks for an excellent question, Jon. Why today’s paucity of genuine ‘literature?’ And it’s one I’ve attempted to tackle in …

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Goodbye To All That…..

December 31, 2019

Amy, my Mobile Mountain Hermit’s Hut It’s damp and chilly outside. Typical Vancouver winter weather. Earlier I took a walk, …

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Gates And Doors….

December 7, 2018

  In a relatively recent email to a reader of the Cafe I had tried to describe how I imagined this …

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Aum My!

September 18, 2017

A strange place, this Cafe for sure. Don’t think I don’t know. Difficult even. But that’s ok. Life shouldn’t be …

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Life (Beyond the Words) is ALL There Is….

September 5, 2016

“He is, of course, attempting the impossible—to describe in words (which always lie) that which is beyond words.”—Timothy Leary, forward …

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James Joyce’s Ulysses: 3 Glaring Misconceptions

August 17, 2016

“How can you own water really? It’s always flowing in a stream, never the same, which in the stream of …

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An End To The Quest….

October 7, 2013

There’s a tale, epic in proportion as all culture-encompassing opuses are, which has yet to be told. I see it …

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Symbols Are Not Literary… They Are Biological

June 1, 2013

Oh Jesus…. I’m sitting in a Cafe enjoying my second Guinness while a tall young fellow sporting a hedgerow mohawk …

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“Literature Is Finished”… and The Middle Way

July 31, 2012

“The way of ‘self-expression’, individual acknowledgements, results in egotists, sure of the right to their private interpretations of God and …

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Cup Of Joe, Anyone?

July 19, 2012

“The message of an effective living myth is delivered to the sphere of bliss of the deep unconscious, where it …

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