They shot glances at each other constantly, eyes shining like scorching forks of mute lightning, while their lips dashed against each other with the force of thunderbolts and with such hungry, ravenous passion they reeled in stupor, gasping for breath, a wonder that their hearts didn’t burst. The ground caved beneath their feet, they fellContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Polish Peasant Lust (Władysław Reymont)”
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RKS POLISH Literature: The Bear Tamer Arrives in the Polish Peasant Village (Władysław Reymont)
The bear-tamer praised God in greeting, then crowed like a cockerel, bleated like a sheep, neighed like a fiery stallion and proclaimed: ‘Bear-tamers are we from a distant land, across the wide sea, from beyond the great forest. Where people walk upside down, where fences are made of sausages and where they cool themselves byContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: The Bear Tamer Arrives in the Polish Peasant Village (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Poverty, Hunger, Neglect but Betrayal! (Władysław Reymont)
It was not the poverty or the neglect, the frequent hunger, so that there was barely enough for the children. Nor was it that Antek sat drinking in the inn with his chums, caring nothing for home, sneaking into the cottage like a stray dog and reaching for his stick at any hint of reproach.Continue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Poverty, Hunger, Neglect but Betrayal! (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: The Iron Grip of Necessity (Władysław Reymont)
True, when necessity gets a hold on you, there is no slipping out of its grasp, my friend, oh no! Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909
RKS British Literature: SAVAGERY AND CIVILIZATION (Joseph Conrad)
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. The courage, the composure, the confidence; the emotions and principles; every great and insignificant thought belongs not to the individual but to the crowd thatContinue reading “RKS British Literature: SAVAGERY AND CIVILIZATION (Joseph Conrad)”
RKS French Literature: The Meanest Type of Woman (Anaïs Nin)
It was Michel who counseled Linda never to be jealous, that she must remember there were more women in the world than men, especially in France, and that a woman must be generous with her husband – think how many women would be left without a knowledge of love. He said this seriously. He thoughtContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Meanest Type of Woman (Anaïs Nin)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Old Men, Dogs, Bacon and Skirts (Władysław Reymont)
It’s obvious a skirt’ll lead a man further than a dog after bacon, for the dog’s more likely to hang back! And an old man’s easier than a young’un. He’s greedier and it’s harder for him to seek his pleasures in other folk’s cottages. Go right ahead, you’ll soon be thanking me! And as forContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Old Men, Dogs, Bacon and Skirts (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS French Literature: The French Hairdresser as the Priest of Perfection (Anaïs Nin)
The contour of a shoe, the sleekness of a glove, these give the Parisian woman a trimness, an audacity, that far surpasses the seductiveness of other women. Centuries of coquetry have produced a kind of perfection that is apparent not only in the rich women but in the little shop girls. And the hairdresser isContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The French Hairdresser as the Priest of Perfection (Anaïs Nin)”
RKS American Literature: Why I Am Inclined to See the Darker Side of Life (Sherwood Anderson)
The first venture into which the two people went turned out badly. They rented ten acres of poor stony land on Grigg’s road, eight miles from Bidwell, and launched into chicken raising. I grew into boyhood on the place and got my first impressions of life there. From the beginning, they were impressions of disasterContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Why I Am Inclined to See the Darker Side of Life (Sherwood Anderson)”
RKS French Literature: The Meaning of Parisian Chic (Anaïs Nin)
When Linda had first arrived in Paris from the little town in the South of France where she was born and she and her husband met, she was only twenty years old. She was badly dressed, shy, innocent. She had luxuriant hair which she did not know how to arrange. She used no make-up. WalkingContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Meaning of Parisian Chic (Anaïs Nin)”
