Drinking up the Sea

Drinking up the Sea contains six novels subtitled "e;A Hurley Hexalogy."e; Included are "e;The Last Existentialist,"e; in which a ninety-year-old philosopher is on his way to accept an award; "e;Auteur,"e; the story of boy meets girl as interpreted by an art cinema director; "e;Villas and Horizons,"e; where an obscure copywriter compares his visions with those of Nietzsche and Tiberius; "e;Under the Greywacke Arch,"e; wherein the search for the meaning of aesthetics is interrupted by visits from tiny characters out of our cultural past; "e;Smudge,"e; showing how distinct pairs of philosophical concepts can be merged; and "e;Walking in Beauty,"e; a guide of the bleak aesthetics of one of the nation's oldest cities.