“They pay more attention to omens than any other people in the world, and they are better than others in telling good omens from bad. For let me tell you that when a man sets out for some destination and happens along the way to hear someone sneeze, he immediately sits down on the roadContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Big Sneeze in Maabar (Marco Polo)”
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RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires : Part Two (Yoshimoto Banana)
“Whenever I caught a cold. My mother would mix up a drink for me, dissolving honey in hot water, adding a splash of whisky, squeezing in the juice of a lemon. She was still doing that for me when I was at high school. On one of those evenings when children were bleeding and beingContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires : Part Two (Yoshimoto Banana)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: BOB, MASTER OF RORY D. STEPHEN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE: TO MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER WONG AND REUNITE WITH RORY HIS WESTIE
BOB, MASTER OF RORY D. STEPHEN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE: TO MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER WONG THE SINGAPORE TIMES (Lok Bok reporter at large and gossip columnist) Bob, Master of West Highland Terrier Rory D. Stephen, recently liberated by the Singapore Police Force (SPF), arrived early this morning from Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific. Thoroughly exhaustedContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: BOB, MASTER OF RORY D. STEPHEN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE: TO MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER WONG AND REUNITE WITH RORY HIS WESTIE”
RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires (Yoshimoto Banana): Part One
“One morning her son, at the height of his teenage cockiness, goes off to school as always, hardly taking a sip of coffee, long and lanky in his favourite jeans. To his mother, he looks the same as he always has, ever since he was a boy. That look is where all her memories reside-it’sContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires (Yoshimoto Banana): Part One”
RKS Literature: Suicidal Execution in Maabar (Marco Polo)
“When a man has committed a crime that warrants the death sentence and the king has decreed his execution. The condemned man declares he wishes to kill himself in honour and adoration of such-and-such idol. The king replies that he approves of this. Then all the relatives and friends of the man who must killContinue reading “RKS Literature: Suicidal Execution in Maabar (Marco Polo)”
RKS Literature: Warmest Climes Nurse Cruellest Fangs (Herman Melville)
“Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders. Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is. That in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Warmest Climes Nurse Cruellest Fangs (Herman Melville)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY D. STEPHEN’S OWNER ARRIVES IN HONG KONG: IS THERE A MOVIE ROLE FOR FORMER MISS HONG KONG?
RORY D. STEPHEN’S OWNER ARRIVES IN HONG KONG: IS THERE A MOVIE ROLE FOR FORMER MISS HONG KONG? NEW TERRITORIES POST DAILY Bob, owner of recently liberated Rory D. Stephen, currently residing with Singaporean Prime Minister Wong in Singapore, after a daring rescue arrived at Hong Kong International Airport from Toronto connecting to Singapore. TheContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY D. STEPHEN’S OWNER ARRIVES IN HONG KONG: IS THERE A MOVIE ROLE FOR FORMER MISS HONG KONG?”
RKS Literature: The Fate of a Whale Boat Jumper (Part One): (Herman Melville)
“Stubb suddenly dropped all advice, and concluded with a peremptory command, ‘Stick to the boat Pip, or by the Lord, I won’t pick you up if you jump; mind that. We can’t afford to lose whales by the like of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would in Alabama. Bear thatContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Fate of a Whale Boat Jumper (Part One): (Herman Melville)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: STATEMENT FROM THE HONG KONG SOCIETY AGAINST CANINE TRAFFICKING
STATEMENT FROM THE HONG KONG SOCIETY AGAINST CANINE TRAFFICKING The Hong Kong Society Against Canine Trafficking issued the following statement today. We thank the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lawrence Wong, for crediting The Hong Kong Society Against Canine Trafficking, for assisting in the liberation of the Canadian West Highland Terrier Rory D. Stephen. The SocietyContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: STATEMENT FROM THE HONG KONG SOCIETY AGAINST CANINE TRAFFICKING”
RKS Literature: Seagulls as Air Sharks (Herman Melville)
“There’s a most doleful and most mocking funeral! The sea vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or speckled. In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral, they most piously do bounce. OhContinue reading “RKS Literature: Seagulls as Air Sharks (Herman Melville)”
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