My Soul On Ice: A Philosophical Autobiography

This project combines autobiographical with philosophical material in such a way as to harmonize with the author s customary approach to anything remotely resembling an autobiography which, as on previous occasions, could not materialize were it not for his ongoing or, in this instance, definitive commitment to philosophy, which has always been his raison d tre for writing and therefore justification for anything else, including autobiography. In this, the third such project, the combination of the two approaches to literature is brought to a veritable apotheosis, and it would be no surprise if this paradoxically turned out to be Mr. O Loughlin s last hurrah in the genre a fitting climax to a brilliant literary vocation. - A Centretruths editorial.