Benjamin Evans - Author

I have been asked to do an article by a friend about Raw Food and the effect it can have an the life of an individual. As you will see from previous entries, I am well aware of the influence diet can have on what we do and how we act, so thought it would be an interesting exercise to consider this in a potentially real-life situation, rather than the 'Q&A/comment' style that most lazy journalism follows. I hope you find it interesting. Check out this blog for some further thoughts and the website of Silvia Clausin , who was kind enough to recruit me to contribute. Needless to say, the recipes are all hers. LIVING FOODS SAVED MY MARRIAGE I have a confession to make. This Valentine’s Day will mark the beginning of the third year of my marriage and I think it’s going to be the last. It’s hard to admit it, and I know this isn’t a simple thing to say, but it’s going stale. It’s not like we don’t like each other or don’t talk to each other, but in terms of physical attraction, f...

To my Dearest Wife I am writing to confess. I am having an affair. For the last year I have been engaging in a secret relationship, and I it has come to the time to tell you all. It started with a quick fling. It was on a Sunday when you were out for lunch, and for someone I became tempted. I can’t remember why now, but I remember what happened and the next day I felt terrible, truly terrible about it. I hadn’t ready. It all came on too quick. My mind and body were not prepared. It felt like the worst of hangovers – aches, pains, fatigues and inner shame - and I didn’t think I’d ever want to do it again. I would stay with you and everything would be okay. But there was something about it, a small part of the experience that wouldn’t let me go. The intensity, the adrenalin, the unpredictability of it all -it lingered in my mind and kept reminding how it felt. The pain had dissipated and now all I could think about was the feeling of the act itself, the brief, blissful moment. I couldn’...

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The blurb on the back of the book tells me this: 'Here, spelt out between the lines of his famous book about bullfighting, is the outline of the whole of Hemingway's philosophy of life and art. For those who would understand the man Death in the Afternoon is the key.' I think there is some truth in this statement, but not in the way the text suggests. What this book does is give un a fantastic insight into the writer, but not Hemingway himself. It is an account of a character engaging interest in a hobby to an almost pathological extent and then, like the worst of whores, jumping into a new existence until the knowledge of this fully consumed. Hemingway is the ultimate example of this charcter, in letting something consume him to the point where his life is his writing, and his characters are his character. Can there be any other author less distinctive in his work yet so multi-faceted at the same time? And yet Hemingway is still just a writer, he is not the characters who ...