Walter’s freshman year at a top Engineering School wasn’t what he had hoped for. Academic success was a given but wasn’t college supposed to be about freedom, drugs and wild sex? This was 1969 after all. But as Walter laments “freshman year was just OK, I somehow missed out on that sex thing.” Walter was hoping sophomore year will be his MVP season. Regrettably it wasn’t, it was a nothing, in fact it was The Year that Didn’t Exist. The story opens with Walter’s big mistake: securing off-campus housing with two roommates he finds intolerable. One chapter details his accidental meeting, and getting stoned with Jane and Tom H. They, activist-celebrities, on their way to a Vietnam protest rally at the Tute, Tom being the keynote speaker. Several chapters are devoted to his introduction and obsession with recreational drugs, pot, hashish, LSD and Ludes. How he meets his first girlfriend, the result of a bet, as to who would score better on a biology test, is thoroughly, but not graphically detailed. And finally, the only real highlight of his meaningless year, teaming up with drug buddy Strappa and winning a collegiate bowling championship, provides a humorous ending to the saga. The Year that Didn’t Exist should strike chords that ring true in almost everyone and hopefully transport the reader back to their college days, days perhaps simpler and likely filled with unbound optimism.
David Walter Smith started writing and performing music during the early 1980s-ended up giving his life to the cause. Singing and playing guitar, be it Rock, Blues, Folk, on to Jazz back to country, the musician loved it all. By the 90s the songwriter moved from Chicago to Nashville to pitch songs only to end up in Venice, CA. by 2000 living in a van down by the ocean and playing music in the streets...lived like that for over 15 years. Along the way he had written two novels, a play and a screenplay. In 2005 Mr. Smith began writing about his life, where he was and then how the years brought him there. A Proustian pursuit ensued giving birth to six volumes of memoirs to speak for 54 years lived. By 2019 David returned to writing novels with two more books. Poetry was always there, mostly in song form, but the prolific writer kept tinkering with the medium, music aside. Amidst the years of memoirs, David wrote poems to express what the books might have missed, some abstract, others more direct.
Walter Smith was just an ordinary Australian man when war broke out in September, 1939. He was young, mischievous, and adventurous with a typical Aussie sense of humour and he immediately decided to enlist with the Army. The Army number he was allocated, WX 289, meant that he was one of the first three hundred men to enlist. This book covers his life for the six years he spent in the army to the end of the War. The book is an uncomplicated, straightforward record of his daily life, the food he was served up, his mates, amusing stories and his escapades on his travels with the army across Egypt to Greece and Italy. It covers his treatment at the hands of the Italians and finally to the Polish coal mines as a POW held by the Germans. Just as the War was about to end, he managed to escape and made it to England before being shipped home to Australia.
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