Robert K Stephen (CSW)

RKS Literature: Meow Meow and Woof Woof in Street Pies! DENIED! (Henry Mayhew)

“The pie dealers usually make the pies themselves. The meat is bought in ‘pieces’ of the same part as sausage-makers purchase- the ‘sticklings’- at about 3d the pound. ‘People when I go into houses’ said one man ‘often begin by crying “Mee-yow” or “Bow-wow-wow! At me; but there’s nothing of that kind now. Meat youContinue reading “RKS Literature: Meow Meow and Woof Woof in Street Pies! DENIED! (Henry Mayhew)”

RKS Literature: The Itinerant Trade of Pies in Old London (Henry Mayhew)

“The itinerant trade in pies is one of the most ancient of the street callings in London. The meat pies are made of beef or mutton; the fish pies of eels; the fruit of apples, currants, gooseberries, plums, damsons, cherries, raspberries or rhubarb, according to the season-and occasionally of mincemeat. A few years ago theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Itinerant Trade of Pies in Old London (Henry Mayhew)”

RKS 2026 ONTARIO WINE: Yes We Have Gamay in Canada! leaning post Gamay From Niagara, Ontario

There is more to Niagara Falls than water! There are many wineries in and around Niagara Falls. There are numerous historical sights. There are a plethora of dining options. What a shame the Canadian government and local tourist promotional bodies are limping behind the surge in wine tourism. One the first wineries I encounter onContinue reading “RKS 2026 ONTARIO WINE: Yes We Have Gamay in Canada! leaning post Gamay From Niagara, Ontario”

RKS Literature: The Regalness of Sperm Oil! (Herman Melville)

“But the only thing to be considered here, is this-what kind of oil is used at coronations? Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor bear’s oil, nor train oil, nor cod liver oil. What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Regalness of Sperm Oil! (Herman Melville)”

RKS Literature: Violent and Beautiful Death in Italy (D.H. Lawrence)

“The colonel, poor devil-we knew him afterwards-is now dead. It is strange that he is dead. There is something repulsive to me in the thought of him lying dead: such a humiliating, somehow degraded corpse. Death has no beauty in Italy, unless it be violent. The death of a man or woman through sickness isContinue reading “RKS Literature: Violent and Beautiful Death in Italy (D.H. Lawrence)”

RKS Literature: Giovanni Returns to America for the Last Time Intending to Return to Italy in Five Years (D.H. Lawrence)

“Nothing was more painful than to see him standing there is his degraded, sordid American clothes, on the deck of the steamer, waving us good-bye, belonging in his final desire to our world, the world of consciousness and deliberate action. With his candid, open, unquestioning face, he seemed like a prisoner being conveyed from oneContinue reading “RKS Literature: Giovanni Returns to America for the Last Time Intending to Return to Italy in Five Years (D.H. Lawrence)”

Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: AS FOR POTTY TRAINING COMMUNICATION IS A TWO-WAY STREET: 66.47% THERE!

AS FOR POTTY TRAINING COMMUNICATION IS A TWO-WAY STREET: 66.47% THERE! I am making progress in the potty-training department. Let me rephrase that by saying WE are making progress. The responsibility for depositing my bodily fluids and substances in the right place is a two-way street. You can’t expect a puppy to act solely onContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: AS FOR POTTY TRAINING COMMUNICATION IS A TWO-WAY STREET: 66.47% THERE!”

RKS Literature: Celebratory BBQ of the Cannibals (Herman Melville)

“I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when great battle had been gained there, to barbeque all the slain in the yard or garden of the victor; and then one by one, they were placed in a great wooden trenches, and garnishedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Celebratory BBQ of the Cannibals (Herman Melville)”

RKS Literature: The View of a Good Presbyterian as to Other’s Religious Obligations (Herman Melville)

“I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical. And could not find it my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footsmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The View of a Good Presbyterian as to Other’s Religious Obligations (Herman Melville)”

RKS Literature: Marriage and the Third Thing (D.H. Lawrence)

“It is in the spirit that marriage takes place. In the flesh there is connection; but only in the spirit is there a new thing created out of two antithetic things. In the body I am conjoined with a woman. But in the spirit my conjunction with her creates a third thing, an absolute. AContinue reading “RKS Literature: Marriage and the Third Thing (D.H. Lawrence)”