By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ I remember back when I had an assistantship for teaching English Comp and World Literature back in 1980 at the University of Florida, we had been studying Sartre’s play No Exit, and I came up with a brilliant idea. (Well, I am sure it had been thought of thousands of times before, but for me it was new and therefore ‘brilliant’ – haha).… Read the rest
The Last Of The Mohicans
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18 + Let’s face it: 2022 has been a year most people want to say goodbye to. For me, if I stayed away from all the poison on the media and social network platforms, life would be Utopia. I have made all the right (lucky) decisions in recent years, and by comparison to many if not most, my situation is enviable.
A quick run-through. … Read the rest
Hachiko
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ Last night, with no intention at all of doing so, I allowed myself to watch a film about Hachiko, the famous dog who waited by the train station for 9 years in hopes that his master would come in the evening. The long awaited man, who had died of an aneurysm, never did make it back, but the undeterred animal was indomitable. Finally, the … Read the rest
Remember Only Your Name
By Eric Le Roy
“Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence….
(“A Prayer For My Daughter” – W.B. Yeats)
Content 16+ I remember one early winter evening in Moscow when I had gone looking for a bookshop in New Arbatskaya. It must have been earlier than I recall because the skies had not slackened away into their usual numb abstraction, prelude to the Russian nocturne. Or … Read the rest
Crowds
by Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ We move among them much of our lives, especially people of the cities. At first, when young and uninitiated, we dive right in, intrigued by as yet unknown, seductive cloaks of human motion — uncountable vines of arms and legs — with which we hope to entwine ourselves. (Some will be poisonous.) Surely, we imagine, as we head out of the station and enter … Read the rest
To God Or Not To God
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ I have always had a problem with God. I suppose that anyone who has shouted the words “God damn” as often I have (close to a million) can not in good faith (there I go again) declare himself a total atheist. Otherwise he would be crying out “Godless Damn!” Or, in a happier mood, “Praise the Nothingness!” In fact there are plenty of ‘atheist’ … Read the rest
Nobody Needs Anybody
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ For a long time I have been telling people that my most creative ideas come, not from deeply considered treatises drawn from gold-trimmed volumes, but rather from snatches of common conversation heard along the streets, or simply that one breathtaking remark which friend, foe, or stranger might suddenly make in the midst of an ordinary conversation. In other words, the city bus or convenience … Read the rest
