His consternation started when a family moved into his neighbourhood, into the house across where Stanley lived, had lived for the last six years. In peace and quiet, so much so that he has a favourable atmosphere in which to write his blogs and stories and observations of the world. The family had a mother and father, […]
I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely a second Second Coming is at hand. For somewhere in the sands of the desert a shape with lion body and head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun Is moving its slow thighs, […]
Runyon Slade couldn’t write like he used to, couldn’t type as then, didn’t want to record what seemed to presently have eluded him, If there were any essence there at all. He was sick to a death of the world and its weather which seemed to some people, those who suffered its wrath, to be […]
Dear Reader, He was asking Stanley Pivot how what he wrote about was decided upon. He answered “What needed to be said, wasn’t being said.” And so he risked stating these thoughts at the chance that they might not be printed. The world as Stanley perceived it was much more primitive than it used to […]
“We will find you. We will hold you accountable.” Barack Obama Stanley was reading the front page headlines of the Toronto Globe and Mail, Friday April 19, 2013, a few days after the pressure cooker bombs went off disrupting a premier American cultural event, the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators/participants.
Stanley decided to send his collection of essays, his blogs, to his friend and former student in Turkey without much thought to whether its contents might be considered too radical to be allowed into that country. Nor whether his mailing of the two three-ring binders might be taken from their postal route, opened and looked at with […]
An official card of protest, Mr. Harper’s short and insensitive letter that he and thus the Canadian people hoped that the Venezuelan people could build a more promising future, now that their beloved commandant Hugo was dead after his long battle with cancer. Who does this man Harper think we are that he should send […]
Stanley Pivot didn’t know what to think. What prompted the lengthy message in Turkish? Where did it come from? Who sent it? Was it a warning from a disgruntled reader of his Book-format of his website? Were there pieces there which the reader didn’t agree with, and had threatened reprisal in the Turkish Stanley didn’t understand? Why was it […]
With Oscar Pistorius’ shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, he has added merely one more to the 2500 other women abused and assaulted annually with guns by men in South Africa. It’s so frequent it’s old hat and no longer an event attracting societal concern, although President Zuma had apparently included a reference to this […]
Oscar Pistorius has seen things we people wouldn’t believe . . . all those moments will soon be lost in time, like tears in the rain. These words taken from Ridley Scott’s film “Blade Runner” from his last replicant just before he died. They also seem to ring presciently for Mr. Pritorius for he recently has […]
