Long Vo-Phuoc
Writer. Retired Fund Manager.
Articles & Works of Fiction. © All rights reserved.
Writer. Retired Fund Manager.
Literature, mathematics, history, economics. Applications.
Writer.
Head, licensed Australian fund management firm, macro financial markets, late 1980s till retirement.
Head, corporation member, Australian derivatives exchange, late 1980s till retirement.
Director, large public Australian fund management firm, 1980s.
Quantitative & actuarial consultant, insurance offices, consultancy, bank, late 1970s, 1980s.
Editor & writer, journal for Viet students in Sydney, mid-1970s; head, Viet students’ union in Australia, 1975-76.
Colombo Plan scholarship student, engineering & mathematics, 1970s.
A Contemporary Landscape is of the times and scapes we are living in, the market with its greed, the central banks their arrogant errors, the consumer economics, the politics of waste and hubris, warts and all. Time Slows is simply that, the slowness of time, space and thoughts, of lives interrupted, of reality dressed up as dreams. 1973-76 & Rho is a narrower set of time, where reminiscences still converse in the mind and traces and images of the past live, what can I say, long into the present. Blobs is art in all senses to this writer, whether the blobs of van Gogh, transcendental notions of mathematics, the courage of a strong woman standing up to ugly cultural norms and perverse establishment politics to defend the rights of women; and other sublime beauties. Notes on Viet Literature is collection of articles and essays, old and current, on Viet writers and poets fifty years ago or more, Nguyen Sa Vo Phien Khai Hung ... among others. Maps is of maps, made many years ago, creations of science, artistry, adventures, industrious exploration of matters and minds – and of memory in its furthest reach.
R is a private page, where I pay simple homage to my Valentine of more than forty years – my noblest job in life is to daily humour her, much like a Chinese fictional leader who retired early in the 14th century of Mongolian China in order to (unnecessarily!) darken his wife’s eyebrows; retired, because the beloved was a Mongolian princess.
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The remaining three are works of fiction, continuing. Evening in Vijaya is a private history of a Cham duchess, of her life-long friend the brave famous king and their inventive but sorrowful kingdom, of fate and human design; and of the remains of her archives somehow bequeathed into my hand – or was it simply a product of dreams? North-East is of a philosophical communist comrade (contradiction in terms, perhaps), and the smells of gunpowder and mountain orchids in her time, of her comrade husband and two other persons from a different land many mountains and oceans away, and of unexpected love that transcended time, space, customs.
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Cầu Gió, the newly added Page, was the name of a bridge during the Viet Nam independence war 1946-54. The canvas of the work is narrower, the time frame shorter, than North-East. Published in Vietnamese in 1973 and 1974 as a short story, more materials are being added as from 2025. Why more? Because I’ve unearthed recently new documents belonging to the protagonists. Quite partial particularly to one of them, I write some of hers out in English in the midst of her long-ago flagrance – trust she wouldn’t mind from the other side of time.
Pages “Maps” and “Windy Bridge” (https://www.longvophuoc.com/windybridge) are accessible from the Pages’ name or by clicking on the button “more” (to the right of the list of Pages above).
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Mobile-phone mode is more or less supported for all the Pages apart from "1973-76 & Rho", but layout of graphic is rather limited by the nature of the mode. It's best to use a computer for "1973-76 & Rho" or, indeed, all others.
Articles up until March 2019 were posted on Google-Plus page plus.google.com/+LongVoPhuoc until the service was abandoned by Google in April 2019.