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Ducks and Drakes Continued
NOTE TO THE READER: in the following severabl blogs, all called Ducks and Drakes, I am giving you the early beginnings of a new memoir, if you will. I will not blog for awhile, but if I do it will be to continue with Ducks and Drakes With Krishnaji. I look forward to your comments. It was in the seventies and into the mid eighties that I read Krishnamurti’s works — The Awakening of Intelligence, a thick book of dialogues he had in Saanen, Switzerland in the late sixties; You are the World, and others. I read a dense biography of…
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Ducks and Drakes with Krishnaji
In any case it’s a working title for my next book which will be on the spiritual teacher, Krishnamurti, sometimes called K, or with the honorific used in India, Krishnaji. While doing my mandatory one hour peripatetic lap walk in a local gym, in the inevitable battle to lose weight and to keep my other carotid artery from becoming plaque-ridden, I think about K. Presently I am reading Krishnamurti’s Notebook which is a spirtitual diary that comes with the adviso that K was not on drugs when he wrote this, and I believe that to be so, for he was too…
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Finishing Touches
Tentatively titled, “I Truly Lament, Working Through the Holocaust,” my latest book of short stories is now undergoing my finishing touches. Using the suggestion of David Herrle who edited the manuscript, I am threading quotations from The i Tetralogy throughout, using each one before a story begins; the quotations sometimes apply significantly to the story, sometimes not. In any case I like the idea. However, as I tramped through the novel choosing quotations I began to experience a kind of despair, for I was again in the camps and that “existence.” I have dedicated the book to Jane, gave special…
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At This Time
At this time I am preparing a bio for my book, “This Mobius Strip of Ifs,” for the publisher Chris O’Byrne of Red Willow Digital Press. When all this is submitted in addition to two summaries of the book for the back cover, I suppose, or for advertising as an Ebook and print version, it will be published. So over this weekend Jane and I are both scrambling to get everything in order for the publisher’s once over. The art of writing, for me, has always been the art of revision, to keep saying more by saying less, by thinking…