The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: ALL ABOARD THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS! Bags all packed and taken to the luggage desk of our hotel Singapore Shangri-La we head down for a light breakfast and for me a small bowl of jasmine tea. Bobby Jr. mutters, “Eat light. Nothing but theContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: ALL ABOARD THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS!”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Japanese Literature: The Steam Train Representative of Twentieth-Century Civilization (Natsume Sōseki)
“We are being dragged deeper into the real world, which I define as the world that contains trains. Nothing can be more quintessentially representative of twentieth-century civilization than the steam train. It roars along, packed tight with hundreds of people in one box, merciless in its progress, and all those hundreds crammed in there mustContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Steam Train Representative of Twentieth-Century Civilization (Natsume Sōseki)”
RKS French Literature: Extreme Poverty and Quasi Starvation (Émile Zola)
“Buried beneath the blanket, all that could be seen of her was her long face with its broad features, which had a certain heavy beauty, but which at the age of thirty-nine, had already been disfigured by her life of poverty and the seven children she had borne. She told him how there was noContinue reading “RKS French Literature: Extreme Poverty and Quasi Starvation (Émile Zola)”
RKS French Literature: The Reek of the Human Herd in the Coal Miner’s Tenement (Émile Zola)
“At the Maheus’ house, Number Sixteen in the second block, nothing stirred. Thick darkness filled the one and only first-floor room: it bore down like a crushing weight on the people sleeping there, whose presence could be felt rather than seen as they lay crowded together, their mouths open, stunned by exhaustion. Despite the bitterContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Reek of the Human Herd in the Coal Miner’s Tenement (Émile Zola)”
RKS Japanese Literature: Suffering the Result of Attachment (Natsume Sōseki)
“While we live in this world with its daily business, forced to walk the tightrope of profit and loss, true love is an empty thing, and the wealth before our eyes mere dust. The reputation we grasp at, the glory that we seize, is surely like the honey that the cunning bee will seem sweetlyContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Suffering the Result of Attachment (Natsume Sōseki)”
RKS Japanese Literature: The Lack of Beauty of Western Food (Natsume Sōseki)
“Not a single Western food has a color that could be called beautiful-the only exception I can think of are salad and radishes. I’m in no position to speak of its nutritional vale, but to the artist’s eye it is a thoroughly uncivilized cuisine. On the other hand, artistically speaking, everything on a Japanese menu,Continue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Lack of Beauty of Western Food (Natsume Sōseki)”
RKS Japanese Literature: Eyes Blinded by Worldly Passions and the Artist (Natsume Sōseki)
“I suppose you could say that the artist is one that lives in a three-cornered world, in which the corner the average person would call “common sense” has been sheared off from the ordinary four squared world that the normal inhabit. For this reason, be it in nature or human affairs, the artist will seeContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Eyes Blinded by Worldly Passions and the Artist (Natsume Sōseki)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)THE BIG B
THE BIG B Your sons and daughters attend the best schools While we carry the tools and you try to categorize us as uncouth fools cocaine at the big frat party where anyone over 50 considered farty drive the big cars travel to countries afar their brown Adriatic touched faces gleam but for us WinnipegContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)THE BIG B”
RKS WINES OF ARGENTINA: Kaiken Ultra 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon
Kaiken can be trusted to deliver good Malbecs but can the same be said for its Cabernet Sauvignons? The only way to so determine is to open a bottle of Kaiken Ultra 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon from Mendoza. Grapes grown at 1,050 metres. 45% of the wine in French oak barrels (1/3 each in new/second/third use)Continue reading “RKS WINES OF ARGENTINA: Kaiken Ultra 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon”
RKS Japanese Literature: The Journey and its Poetic Component (Natsume Sōseki)
“While we are on our journey, shod in our straw sandals as of yore, we may do nothing but grumble about its hardships from dawn to dusk, but when we come to tell the tale to others, we will never make a murmur of such complaints. No, we will speak smugly of its fascinations andContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Journey and its Poetic Component (Natsume Sōseki)”
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