My Soul on Ice

This hybrid literary project combines autobiographical with philosophical material in such a way as to harmonize with the author's customary approach to anything remotely resembling an autobiography which, as on previous occasions, could not materialize were it not for his ongoing or, in this particular instance, well-nigh definitive commitment to philosophy, which has always been his raison d' tre for writing and therefore justification for anything else, including autobiography. In this, his third such project, the combination of the two approaches to literature, reminiscent in a way of Henry Miller, is brought to a veritable apotheosis, and it would be no surprise if this paradoxically turned out to be Mr O'Loughlin's last autobiographical hurrah - a fitting climax to a brilliant vocation - A Centretruths editorial