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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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A Western (Zen) Oneness

July 2, 2012

At the heart of the Omphalos Cafe is a Western approach to a oneness which, for want of a better …

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It’s Bloomsday…For The Masses, Dedalusday For The Few

June 15, 2012

“Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses “It’s Bloomsday…for the masses; Dedalusday for …

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You Write, I Write, We All Write….Right?

June 1, 2012

“I eschew all clear cut interpretations: with increasing simplification the mystery heightens. What I know tends to become more and …

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