Charles Frode
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Educator/Writer/Author |
| Location | Eagle, Idaho, United States |
| Introduction | As a writer I live in the world of connotations--the emotional, intellectual, and mental associations a word creates in the reader/listener's mind. Writing is the adventure of living in the multidimensional world of connotations all the time. |
| Interests | I love Cormac McCarthy, J.M.G. Le Clézio, John Steinbeck, Julian Jaynes (The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, a must-read), Robert Graves, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rudolfo Anaya, Herman Hesse (Narcissus and Goldmund is his best novel), Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, ee cummings; Carol Anthony's version of the I Ching, Eknath Easwaran's version of The Bhagavad Gita, Thomas Merton, Trappist monasticism, the Dalai Lama; grinding Indian spices, garam masala, sambar podi, for examples; Flamenco guitar (Manitas de Plata and Paco de Lucia) particularly seguirias, fandango, and bulerias; gardening with tomatoes chiles basil herbs; perfect metaphors, lyrical language, seeking the connotatively perfect synonym; "Cooks Illustrated" magazine, their oatmeal scones to die and be resurrected for; silence, touch, earth. |
| Favorite books | The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, The I Ching, The White Goddess by Robert Graves, Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse |