By Eric Le Roy
They say it’s the ‘soul’ that matters. Well, these days a lot of people don’t think we have them; they figure that what goes on inside our skulls is not much more than an electronic car crash or an endless lightning storm – and maybe they are right. Indeed, before ‘souls’ were sent packing, not to an ‘afterlife’ but to the slagheap of everlasting death, … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
"The world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel” – Horace Walpole
“Only the Lonely” was the signature song of a guy named Roy Orbison, a star in the early rock’ n’ roll era. Orbison died in 1988 of a heart attack at the age of 52. Songs are full of lonely guys; they were back … Read the rest
(Sex as Performance Art)
By Eric Le Roy
Since in life as well as fiction, what gets left out is often even more interesting than what goes in – and since civilization is art as much as anthropology – I have sometimes wondered how sex fits into the Grand Scheme of things, especially from the psychological aspect, and for pleasure as well as mere procreation of species. For … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
The late Anita Roddick, famous female entrepreneur and founder of “Body Shop”, which became incredibly successful, once gave an interview to New English File – a book series used for teaching English as a Second Language. In it, she remarked that, “The world is no longer run by churches or politicians; it is run by corporations.” I hadn’t heard that one before, … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Basketball players call it ‘being in the zone’. Or ‘getting hot’. Athletes in other sports have the same encounters with this indefinable ‘magic’ when every fiber of coordination of the body and mind and vision seems to cooperate in such a way that, as soon as the ball leaves your hands, you know it’s going in; the basket is as big as an ocean; you … Read the rest
