As a writer, John O'Loughlin, aka johulin, always fancied himself as something of a philosopher, if a distinctly and unashamedly self-taught one, and the first of the works to which one can link below should provide ample evidence of his abilities in this field, being a combination of dialogues and essays drawn from previous texts called DAWN OF THE LIFE. This has been packaged with the author's collected rhymed and free verse poetry entitled IN DISGUISE - an allusion to the fact that, apart from his early endeavours, most of the poems in this collection are of a philosophical nature.