Posted in books, metaphysics, pictures, psychology on Jan 23rd, 2012
Del lent me Aldous Huxley’s : “Time Must Have an End”… an interesting book…
in it Bruno says: “Remorse is pride’s ersatz for repentance, the ego’s excuse for not accepting God’s forgiveness. The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful , because the reproached self isn’t abandoned, [...]
Back in 1975 my father, Ted Allan, gave me his script for the movie, Lies My Father told Me, and asked me if I thought I could novelise it. I did, and I did (and I’ll tell you more, if you ask).
While it was in print, it was taught in high school English courses!
Now, out [...]
The Ten Best Science Fiction Books of All Time! *
The ten best science fiction books of all time include: -
The Crysalids by John Wyndham The last quarter of the Crysalids turns into a car chase, but eh first 3/4s is so good that I still rank it as one of the very best.
The Dreaming Jewels [...]
Posted in Ted Allan, books, this blog, what I do on Apr 14th, 2010
My father used to say that Norman Bethune was the most exciting person that he every new (as an introduction to discussing Bethune). My father, Ted Allan, was the most exciting person that I ever knew…
I have posted 13 chapters of a (20 chapter) biography… and more are coming.
The first chapter, (The Pen as Sword:
Ted [...]
In her mid-twenties, when Heather left a “restrictive” relationship, she decided that she wanted to celerbrate her body. Among the things she did to validate her body was to pose at a “life” class I attend.
Then she got a diagnosis of breast cancer, underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy.
“Heather’s mastectomy” is a series of twelve drawings/painting [...]
Posted in books, humor, pipedreams illustrations, trivia on Jun 6th, 2008
Someone should read my novel!
Pipedreams was my hippie fairytale. Was? Is!
Written in the 1970s (all of them years – an epic, later pruned
and rewritten in the 90s)
Illustrated (by myself and others)
My friend, Willie, thought it was splendid, and funny. Better than the Magus (and that’s some praise).
I wonder how it reads today. Read [...]
