Ken Talks
Friday, September 8, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
My Outlook
My
Outlook
Psychologists often tell us that
the personalities of “normal people” are generally formed by one’s early
20s. Of course, certain unstable
personality types, such as those suffering from a borderline personality
disorder, do not fit under this generalization and have unstable
personalities. In going over the pages
of my science fiction novel from the early sixties, I find that my views and
outlook have changed little. After
extricating myself from a crisis of religious belief in my late teens, I had
settled pretty much a view of what Stephen King termed. “a dark Christianity,”
one based upon the views of Ecclesiastes and the sturdy old Medieval belief
that this world is a vale of tears and humankind’s true home lies beyond the
grave. Of course I am not an utter pessimist. Certainly this world offers joys
and pleasures. Some people are winners, some loser, often because of events
beyond their control.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
A Relief
A
Relief
As some of you may recall, I have
been preparing for publication the science fiction novel I initially wrote in
the 60s and rewrote in the seventies. I have been planning to do so for some
years. In the back of my mind lurked the possibility that I would be
unpleasantly surprised by what I wrote eons before. I am glad that so far I have found little
that needs changing.
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Recently my imagination has been
occupied by the fair blue skies. White sandy beaches, and tropical vegetation
of the state. My mother long wanted to go to Florida .
But my father had no interest in visiting the state. So in the summer of
sixty-three. Mom and I took a trip via Greyhound bus to Miami .
Indeed we had so grand the time that she and I returned the following summer.
In nineteen sixty-four and nineteen sixty-five I worked on the first version of
my science fiction novel, which I’m preparing for publication. Small wonder then that I set the novel in Miami
and the Everglades , especially since the setting fit.
Hence my recurring memories of Florida .
Boasted Too Soon
A few weeks ago I
boasted too soon about being back in the saddle as far as blogging was concerned.
Alas, I spoke too soon. Again I had computer problems. Every now and then a
message appears stating that Windows is having problems communicating with my
computer and has to restart. I can’t prove my supposition, but problem began
about the time Windows forcibly switched my computer to version 10. The repairman cannot find the source of the
problem since it has never occurred while he was examining the machine. So apparently I’ll have to
endure the problem until it gets so bad it starts acting up frequently. By that
time I’ll probably decide to get a new computer.
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