J. Hayes Hurley 
Drinking up the Sea 

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

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