I hit fifty this year, incredibly enough as I thought I was still nineteen. The doctor casually informed me the other week that I'd 'have to start being careful', though he didn't specify about what. If he was referring to drinking then he can bugger off, like all the rest of those politically correct and thoroughly dismal types who seem to be crawling out of the woodwork these days - life is wasted on them, frankly. Anyway, I consider writing to be the only thing I'm any good at, and I'm sure my past bosses would thoroughly agree with that, or with the implication at least. It's all I like doing, and recently I've been having some success with travel pieces, and stumbled over Helium Knowledge a year ago but didn't submit anything. I see it has taken off since then, and being more impressed, and having read some favourable reviews, I've decided to post some of my stuff here for all to view. As they say, it's doing nobody any good lying in the bottom of a drawer, is it?
Please take a peek at my website: http://globalproofs.tripod.com.
I'm getting to grips with HTML and Dreamweaver at the moment so I can build a better one.
Recently, as I said, I've managed to get some travel articles published (this after thirty years of unsuccessful literary endeavours - is it a record?), and my strategy at the moment is to write an article for a magazine, and at the same time stick it on my website, so I'm at least getting the stuff out there.

My passion is ...

Gothic literature and chess

I know too much about ...

Philosophy

My parents always told me ...

This time keep your job!

My childhood ambition ...

To become a vertebrate palaeontologist

My favorite memory ...

Reading 'Book of the Werewolf' in bed on Christmas Eve, 1975

Why I write ...

To explore and express myself, and stay sane in the madhouse

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton

My first job ...

Postman, Christmas 1978 when I was at university

My best moment ...

Managing to ride a two-wheeled pushbike, Christmas 1963

My inspiration ...

Wagner

Arts & Humanities > Classical Literature & Mythology The odyssey of the Odyssey

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The Odyssey, even more than that other great legacy of the ancients, the Iliad, has suffused and indeed shaped Western culture as no other book apart from the Bible has managed to do. Poets, artists and philosophers have been referring to its abiding images and truths about human nature since Homer first dreamed the story up almost three thousand years ago, and new translations seem to have been hitting the shelves every year recently, the best to my mind being the 1996 one by Robert Fagles.Odysseus had sailed to Troy with the Greek leaders Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus, to avenge a wr...

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