Kevan Pooler

Creative Writer on The Meaning of Life and the Sex that started it.

Category Archives: The Courting Code

What’s Sex got to do with it?

♦ September 23, 2022 ♦ Leave a comment

This is the work towards my ‘magnum opus’ in planning for over 40 years. It is key to the website title – the Meaning of Life and the Sex that started it. How can I reflect, in a novel, on the hidden codes in the language of love, but still not taught? They felt hard …

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Peter Green’s End of the Game

♦ July 8, 2020 ♦ 3 Comments

Peter Green and the End of the Game Material referenced in my Work in Progress ‘What’s Sex got to do with it?’ Ex Friar looking for love, discovers this icon. I had missed the early years of the British Blues Boom as I was a young Friar in a monastery. A few months after I …

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… and how the young friar cracked it.

♦ February 6, 2012 ♦ Leave a comment

Narziss and Goldmund it’s not. Hermann Hesse’s hero and alter-ego, Narziss, leaves the Monastery and leads a totally dissolute and debauched life in medieval times. All does not go well. There is a nice cross relationship with “Apple?” where the Grumpies discuss at one point the Syphilitic plague caused by Columbus’s men. In my cracking …

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