“There’s a kind of spurious good fellowship between the English and this country. It’s a tradition to booze together and swap meals and pretend to be friends, though we hate each other like poison. Hanging together we call it. It’s a political necessity. Of course, drink is what keeps the machine going. We should allContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Booze as the Cement of the British Empire (George Orwell)”
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RKS British Literature: A Public Bar in London: Home of Proletarians (George Orwell)
“Gordon shoved open the door of the public bar, Ravelston following. Ravelston persuaded himself that he was fond of pubs, especially low-class pubs. Pubs are genuinely proletarian. In a pub you can meet the working class on equal terms-or that’s the theory anyway. But in practice Ravelston never went into a pub unless he wasContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Public Bar in London: Home of Proletarians (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Covert Socialist Embarrassed with His Wealth (George Orwell)
“But in some ways Ravelston was not even like a moneyed person. The fatty degeneration of the spirit which goes with wealth had missed him, or he had escaped it by conscious effort. Indeed his whole life was a struggle to escape it. It was for this reason that he gave up his time andContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Covert Socialist Embarrassed with His Wealth (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THAT NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT TO MY RESCUE!
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THAT NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT TO MY RESCUE! The intense heat and humidity experienced in George Town flared my earlier morning headache and adding to my misery a queasy stomach. Just get me my bed and a litre of Evian ASAP! But my dreams of aContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THAT NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT TO MY RESCUE!”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: OFF TO GEORGE TOWN ON PENANG ISLAND IN MALAYSIA
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: OFF TO GEORGE TOWN ON PENANG ISLAND IN MALAYSIA Those sedatives from the stitch up on my head imparted an extra long sleep although feeling refreshed, I had a splitting headache which was addressed by Bobby Jr. giving me some canine aspirin given to himContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: OFF TO GEORGE TOWN ON PENANG ISLAND IN MALAYSIA”
RKS British Literature: Master and Beggars in Burma! (George Orwell)
“No natives in this Club! It’s by constantly giving way over small things like that we’ve ruined the Empire. This country’s only rotten with sedition because we’ve been too soft with them. The only possible policy is to treat em like the dirt they are. This is a critical moment, and we want every bitContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Master and Beggars in Burma! (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A British Colonialist’s Hatred of Orientals (George Orwell)
“Ellis really did hate Orientals-hated them with a bitter, restless loathing as of something evil or unclean. Living and working, as the assistant of a timber firm must, in perpetual contact with the Burmese, he had never grown used to the sight of a black face. Any hint of friendly feeling towards an Oriental seemedContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A British Colonialist’s Hatred of Orientals (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Advertising the Dirtiest Ramp Produced by Capitalism (George Orwell)
“The interesting thing about the New Albion was that it was so completely modern in spirit. There was hardly a soul in the firm who was not perfectly aware that publicity-advertising- is the dirtiest ramp capitalism has yet produced. In the red lead firm there had still lingered certain notions of commercial honour and usefulness.Continue reading “RKS British Literature: Advertising the Dirtiest Ramp Produced by Capitalism (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Two Ways of Living (George Orwell)
“There are two ways to live. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it. He took it for granted that he himself would never be able to make money.Continue reading “RKS British Literature: Two Ways of Living (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: DEFENDING SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE AGAINST MALAY TIGER
THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: DEFENDING SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE AGAINST MALAY TIGER The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: DEFENDING SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE AGAINST MALAY TIGER Bobby Jr. and I fared poorly in the sleep department before our expedition to Taman Negara Park. The train was lurching and jerking most ofContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: DEFENDING SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE AGAINST MALAY TIGER”
