Author: Matt
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Things Kazantzakis
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In The i Tetralogy I use a quotation from Kazantzakis’ Report to Greco in at least two places. It reads: “Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break!” It all comes to rest in that sterling quotation mark. It is one of three quotations that Kazantzakis uses in the…
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I Am Curious
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I am sitting here as the computer went dead and I lost the entire blog. You can’t do that with a typewriter or pen and pencil. Aggravating and annoying, the brave new world we live in, with the minds and bodies of our ancestors of the Stone Age all wrapped…
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What is the name of that wiry, nutty creature that fawned over Jabba the Hutt?
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Having read my blogs of late, Jane has decided to keep me honest; she has the brainpower and dry wit to see through cant. And she knows when I am being preposterous, pompous as well as grandiose. That’s what I need, a built-in critic! So as she reads these blogs…
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I Am Feeling Enthused
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Correspondence with reviewers and bloggers of late has been encouraging; new ideas are coming to mind as I sit here in Ahab’s cabin, trying to encompass the world in my driven search for the great white whale; do you recall John Huston’s film in the fifties where you hear Ahab’s pegleg…