All Posts By: Byron McCoy

               “The options of travel and exile may be exhausted, yet instead of despairing, the traveler may hit upon one last alternative: the return.  Why not go back to the very place one left, as a kind of deliberate exercise of freedom?”—Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos _____                Arc of autumn’s splendor peaked and […]

               “Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk.”—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables _____                “Let us narrate what was passing in Marius’ thoughts.                 Let the reader recall the state of his soul.  We have just recalled it, everything was a vision to him now…”                He ended morning’s read upon […]

               “Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name…for a party, for youth, for the good times, for dear good drinking and fighting comrades, for football-game girls in the fall with faces like flowers?  Comes the longing and it has to do with being fifteen and fifty and with the winter sun striking […]

               “The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all illusions…The recurrence of a vision is a reality.”—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables _____                I have many realities, most which are not true, but become again for a time in recurrence of their visions.                I depart and rest in changed reality, apart […]