As a North American we are always on alert about European water! It’ll kill you if you are not careful. The food might kill you too so eat at McDonald’s in Paris every night! On a trip to Mexico I had a vicious crippling attack of Montezuma’s that I could only wish on my worstContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 15March2004: Puntarenas, Costa Rica: The Fateful Glass of Water and the “Lucky Lady””
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“Travels to a Different Time” : 15March2004: Welcome to Costa Rica
There are few advantages of having been victimized with a seat at the extreme back end of the plane next to the WC. However with those vacuum powered flushes ringing in my ear goodness me the plane deplaned at the rear making for my quick escape. The airport at Liberia is tiny with only twoContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 15March2004: Welcome to Costa Rica”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: The Ritual Authority of a Holster
“Wearing a holster gave you the ritual edge in authority. Even in spite of their training and the weeks apart spent establishing their rank through punishing drills and endless parades, the officers were vey young and most of them slimly built compared to the veterans of lumber camps and railroad gangs. In the end, itContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: The Ritual Authority of a Holster”
RKS Literature: Timothy Findley’s “The Wars”: Kill Training
“What he wanted was a model. Someone who could teach him, by example, how to kill. Robert had never aimed a gun at anything. It was a foreign state of mind. So what he wanted was someone else who had acquired that state of mind: who killed as an exercise of the will “ TimothyContinue reading “RKS Literature: Timothy Findley’s “The Wars”: Kill Training”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: John Stuart Mill: What Should be the Power of Society?
“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual, both by the force of opinion and even by that of legislation: and as the tendency of all changes taking place in the world is toContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: John Stuart Mill: What Should be the Power of Society?”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes”; J.D. Salinger: About New York City
“Honest to God, I think it’s this goddam New York. What I think maybe we’ll do, if everything goes along all right, we’ll get ourselves a little place in Connecticut maybe. Not too far out necessarily, but far enough that we can lead a goddam normal life. I mean she’s crazy about plants and allContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes”; J.D. Salinger: About New York City”
RKS Literature: Freedom and Individuality
“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to attain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greaterContinue reading “RKS Literature: Freedom and Individuality”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: “The Communist Manifesto”
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has piteously torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors,” and left no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous cash payment. The bourgeoisie possess theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: “The Communist Manifesto””
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Narcotics and COVID
“Always attuned to changes in the mood of the market, drug dealers had quickly realized the advantageous commercial consequences of a year of continual stress. When the numbers of the infections increased, so had the need to find drug-induced solace in what seemed like the Valley of the Shadow of Death. When the numbers decreased,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Narcotics and COVID”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Artists and Politicians
“But artists, he had long since concluded, were rather like politicians in their interest in the tasteful appearance of truth rather than the truth itself. “ Donna Leon “Give Unto Others” : Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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