ABOUT VINCENT
I believe, wholeheartedly, in the power of words to create worlds.
Isn’t it bizarre that the biggest things to happen to us in life often don’t happen at all? Out of nowhere there comes a word, an idea, a dawning and suddenly the world is cast in a completely new light; truths, hitherto unknown, reveal themselves with the brilliance of hidden insight, and the person that you thought you were a moment ago ceases to exist at all.
Featured Work
PARC DES BUTES
Excerpt from Absurdity, a novel
'Dillon found his paramour right where she said she would be, standing in-between the eaves of a nondescript green bookshop whose large avant-garde titles loitered behind big lead windows like bankrupt uncles...'
THE FLOWERS WILL COVER OVER EVERYTHING
Short story
'David couldn’t help but feel that these were not the only spectators and facilitators, that on the day there were more sinister elements at play...'
THE BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE
Spoken word
'All the villagers gathered round to sit at the venerable one’s feet when a young boy, unable to hide his enthusiasm, burst out with the question he had long been harbouring in his heart…'
A SPACE ODDITY
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ON SUFFERING
Meditation
'There’s a complete and awfully simple sense in which all the great sages are saying the exact same thing...'
THE FIGHT
Excerpt from Absurdity, a novel
“Can I tell you a story? I want to tell you a story. The other day I was driving… I stopped at a stop street in Green Point. You know by those small old Victorian houses that everyone loves – well, there was this man Eliot…'