“I understand it now where the unpleasantness is of being deceived in a legal marriage, but it’s simply a despicable consequence of a despicable position in which both are humiliated. When the deception is open, as in a free marriage, then it does not exist, it’s unthinkable. Your wife will only prove how she respectsContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: There Can be No Deception in a “Free Marriage” (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
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RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: The Clever Cross Examination of a Criminal (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
I believe it’s a sort of legal rule-a sort of legal tradition-for all investigating lawyers to begin their attack from afar, with a trivial, or least and irrelevant subject, so as to encourage or, rather, to divert the man they are cross examining, to disarm his caution and then all at once to give himContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: The Clever Cross Examination of a Criminal (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Poor and Under His Thumb So He Would Like to Believe (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Dounia was simply essential to him, to do without her was unthinkable. For many years he had had voluptuous dreams of marriage, but he had gone on waiting and amassing money. He brooded with relish, in profound secret, over the image of a girl-virtuous, poor ( she must be poor), very young, very poor, ofContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Poor and Under His Thumb So He Would Like to Believe (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A Misconception About Eternity (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that. FyodorContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A Misconception About Eternity (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Illness and Ghosts (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Ghosts are, as it were, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the beginning of them. A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life. But asContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Illness and Ghosts (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: All Men are Mad (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
‘There is some truth to your observation’ the latter replied. ‘In the sense we are certainly all not infrequently like madmen, but with the slight difference that the deranged are somewhat madder, for we must draw a line. A normal man, it is true, hardly exists. Among dozens-perhaps hundreds of thousands-hardly one is to beContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: All Men are Mad (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RORY DYLAN STEPHEN:LOST IN PUPPYDOM”: THE LIBERATION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: GOOD-BY KEITH! A THEATRICAL LIBERATION: UNTIL WE MEET IN ALBANIA
THE LIBERATION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: GOOD-BY KEITH! A THEATRICAL LIBERATION: UNTIL WE MEET IN ALBANIA Up and at Ems early this morning. I am feeling giddy. After the carnage I have witnessed, wouldn’t you? In a van driven by Keith, our former “butler” on the Eastern & Oriental Express, the “illegitimate son” of MadameContinue reading “RORY DYLAN STEPHEN:LOST IN PUPPYDOM”: THE LIBERATION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: GOOD-BY KEITH! A THEATRICAL LIBERATION: UNTIL WE MEET IN ALBANIA”
RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: LOST IN PUPPYDOM: THE LIBERATION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: PRESS CONFERENCE FOR POST TERRORIST SUICIDE BOMBING OF THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS
A media circus swarmed the entrance to the Singapore Shangri-La. The first question was how many confirmed deaths and were there any survivors? The Singaporean Transport Minister replied there were 146 fatalities including three on the ground killed by falling shrapnel. One crew member and the famous West Highland Terrier Cuddlecakes who had received aContinue reading “RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: LOST IN PUPPYDOM: THE LIBERATION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: PRESS CONFERENCE FOR POST TERRORIST SUICIDE BOMBING OF THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS”
RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: LOST IN PUPPYDOM: THE LIBERATION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: EVERYTHING TO PIECES! MY PUPPYHOOD FINALLY RIPPED FROM ME
THE LIBERATION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: EVERYTHING TO PIECES! MY PUPPYHOOD FINALLY RIPPED FROM ME I understand Bob and Fay made arrangements to fly from Toronto to Singapore via Hong Kong. They would be at Singapore Shangri-La late tomorrow evening. Blessed reunion! All the passengers were partaking in their last meal on the Eastern &Continue reading “RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: LOST IN PUPPYDOM: THE LIBERATION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: EVERYTHING TO PIECES! MY PUPPYHOOD FINALLY RIPPED FROM ME”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Fear and Loathing Overcomes the Double Murderer (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Fear gained more and more mastery over him, especially after this second, quite unexpected murder. He longed to run away from the place as fast as possible. And if at that moment if he had been capable of seeing and reasoning more correctly, if he had been able to realise all the difficulties of hisContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Fear and Loathing Overcomes the Double Murderer (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
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