Drinking up the Sea

<p><span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>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.</span></p>