OUR MEETING WITH THE CHINESE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE CANADIAN AMBASSADOR TO CHINA At 10:00 hours a large black limousine arrived at our hotel, the Chosin Reservoir Memorial Veterans’ Hotel and whisked us to a nondescript building where our meeting with the Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs, his assistants and Mr. WonContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: OUR MEETING WITH THE CHINESE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE CANADIAN AMBASSADOR TO CHINA”
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RKS French Literature: Quasimodo and Notre Dame Cathedral as One (Victor Hugo)
Thus it was that his being, gradually unfolding, took its mould from the cathedral – living there – sleeping there – scarcely ever going out of it – receiving every hour its mysterious impress – he came at length to resemble it, to be fashioned like it, to make an integral part of it. HeContinue reading “RKS French Literature: Quasimodo and Notre Dame Cathedral as One (Victor Hugo)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RAFFLES THE WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER GREETER AND RAT HUNTER AT RAFFLES SINGAPORE DEMOTED TO A RESCUE DOG
RAFFLES THE WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER GREETER AND RAT HUNTER AT RAFFLES SINGAPORE DEMOTED TO A RESCUE DOG Raffles is a Singaporean West Highland Terrier who acts as a greeter at Raffles Singapore and a rat hunter too! You’d be surprised where you might see a rat at a swanky hotel like Raffles Singapore. The eveningContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RAFFLES THE WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER GREETER AND RAT HUNTER AT RAFFLES SINGAPORE DEMOTED TO A RESCUE DOG”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY INVITED TO THE PEOPLES’ REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR A FRIENDSHIP TOUR
RORY INVITED TO THE PEOPLES’ REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR A FRIENDSHIP TOUR We were having a leisurely breakfast in our suite at Raffles Singapore. Bob was planning a walk in some nearby park with plenty of shade. We had invited Raffles the Westie greeter at the hotel to join us. Over a pot of jasmineContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY INVITED TO THE PEOPLES’ REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR A FRIENDSHIP TOUR”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: PRESIDENT ORVILLE GRUMP AND OPERATION EPIC TURKEY: KING OF THE COURT OF MIRACLES PROPPED BY HIS BAND OF TRUANDS AND WORSHIPPED BY THE WRETCHED GAPERS
PRESIDENT ORVILLE GRUMP AND OPERATION EPIC TURKEY: KING OF THE COURT OF MIRACLES PROPPED BY HIS BAND OF TRUANDS AND WORSHIPPED BY THE WRETCHED GAPERS The Malaysians ripped open the wrapping of Operation Epic Turkey revealing a grisly rotten centre all ordered by the President of the United States, Orville Grump. It reeked of theContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: PRESIDENT ORVILLE GRUMP AND OPERATION EPIC TURKEY: KING OF THE COURT OF MIRACLES PROPPED BY HIS BAND OF TRUANDS AND WORSHIPPED BY THE WRETCHED GAPERS”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE CEREMONY AWARDING RORY DYLAN STEPHEN THE SINGAPOREAN MEDAL OF VALOUR (Rory thinks Prime Minister Wong’s address may be slightly exaggerated)
THE CEREMONY AWARDING RORY DYLAN STEPHEN THE SINGAPOREAN MEDAL OF VALOUR (Rory thinks Prime Minister Wong’s address may be slightly exaggerated) Remarks of Prime Minister Wong Good afternoon all. We are assembled here to award the Singaporean Medal of Valour to a Canadian West Highland Terrier, Rory Dylan Stephen, abducted and drugged by an internationalContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE CEREMONY AWARDING RORY DYLAN STEPHEN THE SINGAPOREAN MEDAL OF VALOUR (Rory thinks Prime Minister Wong’s address may be slightly exaggerated)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY MAKES A HAPPY SPECTACLE OF HIMSELF: BOB AND FAY ARE HERE IN SINGAPORE
RORY MAKES A HAPPY SPECTACLE OF HIMSELF: BOB AND FAY ARE HERE IN SINGAPORE I have been away from home for two months or so. The two months could have easily be two years. That’s how I feel. Just before the dinner hour I heard a car drive up to Prime Minster’s Wong’s compound andContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY MAKES A HAPPY SPECTACLE OF HIMSELF: BOB AND FAY ARE HERE IN SINGAPORE”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY MAKES A HAPPY SPECTACLE OF HIMSELF: BOB AND FAY ARE HERE IN SINGAPORE
RORY MAKES A HAPPY SPECTACLE OF HIMSELF: BOB AND FAY ARE HERE IN SINGAPORE I have been away from home for two months or so. The two months could have easily be two years. That’s how I feel. Just before the dinner hour I heard a car drive up to Prime Minster’s Wong’s compound andContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY MAKES A HAPPY SPECTACLE OF HIMSELF: BOB AND FAY ARE HERE IN SINGAPORE”
RKS French Literature: The Court of Miracles in Paris (Victor Hugo)
The poor poet cast his eyes around him. He was in fact in that same Court of Miracles where no honest man has ever penetrated at such an hour – a magic circle in which the officers of the Châtelet and the sergeants of the provostry when they ventured thither, disappeared in morsels – theContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Court of Miracles in Paris (Victor Hugo)”
RKS French Literature: The Danger of Following a Pretty Woman at Night (Victor Hugo)
As a practical philosopher of the streets of Paris, Gringoire had remarked that nothing is more favourable to a state of reverie than to follow a pretty woman without knowing whither she is going. In this voluntary surrender of one’s free will – in this fancy of another, while that other is totally unconscious ofContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Danger of Following a Pretty Woman at Night (Victor Hugo)”
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