Category: Philosophy
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Charting future history through the Captain’s Glass
My Mural Gazer story, The Captain’s Glass, is a piece of period fiction, a genre I sometimes stumble into, and a place where I experience a sort of personality split, part of me wanting to live the life of other people in other times, another wanting to free myself from the constraints of historical accuracy.…
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Charlie Abbott
Where did all the stones for the Hermit’s Trail come from? Imagine Charlie Abbott shifting them, a few at a time, in a wheel barrow, from wherever he might have found or quarried them, to the network of walls and trails he built stone by stone, year by year in the woods above Chemainus! The…
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The Heart of the Story
“There comes a point in your life when you crave meaning, don’t you think?” Buddy explained, unable to stop himself. “I mean, something beyond the short term objectives we set ourselves, crawling up corporate ladders, buying houses in suburbia, living up to the advertising glitz? I thought, maybe, I could get beneath all that and…
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Damaged World
In Amazed, one of the concluding episodes of The Mural Gazer, Harry, helped by Buddy, navigates his way to the centre of the Labyrinth in Waterwheel Park. The journey upsets and exhausts him, leaves him feeling confused and guilty about the world he’s leaving behind… “I haven’t left you much to work with, have I?”…