Autobiography of a Tattoo

Ian C. Nelson is assistant director of libraries at the University of
Saskatchewan, and président de la Troupe du Jour, Regina Summer Stage.

Stan Persky teaches philosophy at Vancouver’s Capilano College and is
a book columnist for The Globe and Mail. In Then We Take Berlin (1995),
he combined eclectic comments on European political mores with
confessional diary entries. This less formally packaged and
compartmentalized sequel features a lively style and fascinating
reflections on a wide range of subjects, from philosophy and world
employment to fantasies of homosexual seduction and the politics of
pornography. The author is interesting because he turns out “almost
never to be an orthodox believer in anything.” For readers who are
willing to contemplate the niceties of “homo(sex)” (Persky’s own
term), this is a book definitely worth reading.