By Eric Le Roy
It is the business of dreams to solve dream-problems. That’s why they come forth in the mind of the vulnerable sleeper, in the twirling nebula and radiant nimbus of a slumber. They conjure a world, and that world spins. But dreams usually slip out the back door when sleep lifts, don’t they? They are the best of all burglars, and as they vanish, they take your … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
“Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.”
– Tom Stoppard
Human beings stop at many points of connection. What they discover at these watering holes of the spirit defines the glory and carnage of their lives. I’ve watched people disappear into the dark and reemerge sometime later, as I have, and probably to many of the same places – in substance, if not in … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
A couple of days ago, my wife and I took our young Ridgeback Retriever, Baron, for a long autumnal walk near a monastery up in the hills here in Varna. Toward sundown, when a faint mist wettens the twilight air, then sinks, mixing fallen leaves and black earth into pliable sod, tramping along this multi-colored corridor gives great pleasure. Not many people are about – a … Read the rest
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
