“Far more noteworthy was his attire. By no means or efforts could one ascertain what his dressing gown had been concocted from: the sleeves and upper parts had become so dirty and shiny that they resembled the black-tarred leather used for boots; dangling from the back were four flaps instead of two, with cotton stuffingContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Plyuskin the Miserly Estate Owner/Part TWO (Nikolay Gogol)”
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RKS Russian Literature: Plyuskin the Miserly Estate Owner/Part One (Nikolay Gogol)
“At this our hero could not help but step back and stare at him intently. He happened to have seen many people of every kind, even such as the reader and I will perhaps never have occasion to see: but he had never yet set eyes on anyone like this one. The face was nothingContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Plyuskin the Miserly Estate Owner/Part One (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: The Sticky Nature of a Personal Nickname (Nikolay Gogol)
“Strongly indeed do Russian people express themselves! And if they bestow a particular epithet on someone, it will become part of his lineage and posterity, he will drag it around him into his place of work, and into his retirement, and to Petersburg, and to the ends of the earth. And however cunningly he mayContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: The Sticky Nature of a Personal Nickname (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Nozdryyov Delivers Ultimate Insult to His Brother-in-Law (Nikolay Gogol)
‘I really can’t stand such namby-pambies!’ and he added, aloud: ‘Well, the devil with you, go play house with your wife, you girlie-man!’ ‘No brother, don’t you go calling me a girlie-man!’ replied the brother-in-law, ‘I owe her my life. She’s really so good, so kind, she’s so nice to me. It brings tears toContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Nozdryyov Delivers Ultimate Insult to His Brother-in-Law (Nikolay Gogol)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: SIEM REAP LIKE “GOOD MORNING VIETNAM”: UP ON THE WALL WITH ANGELA JOLIE AND MANNY PACQUIAO
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: UP ON THE WALL WITH ANGELA JOLIE AND MANNY PACQUIAO The reception in my honour was at 19:00 at the “Explorer’s Tales” champagne bar at our hotel Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf and Spa Resort. While Bobby Jr. was in our suite conducting some business onContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: SIEM REAP LIKE “GOOD MORNING VIETNAM”: UP ON THE WALL WITH ANGELA JOLIE AND MANNY PACQUIAO”
RKS Literature: Death by Consumption (Thomas Nasche)
“Oh, a consumption is worse than a Capius ad Ligatum: to nothing can I compare it better than to a reprieve after a man is condemned, or to a boy with his hose about his heels ready to be whipped, to whom his master stands preaching a long time all law and no gospel ereContinue reading “RKS Literature: Death by Consumption (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Russian Literature: The Cacophony of Hounds in a Russian Village (Nikolay Gogol)
“Meanwhile the hounds were giving vent to voices of every conceivable kind. One, his head tossed back, was, drawling so protractedly and zealously that God knows what fee he was getting for it; another was snapping it out as briskly as a sexton; among them rang a tireless treble, probably a young puppy’s, like theContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: The Cacophony of Hounds in a Russian Village (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Fat and Thin Officials in Russia/Part Two (Nikolay Gogol)
“In three years’ time the thin man will not have a single serf left to him that has not been mortgaged; the fat man goes on his quiet way, and ,lo and behold, suddenly at the end of town there appears a house that’s been purchased in his wife’s name, then at the other endContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Fat and Thin Officials in Russia/Part Two (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Fat and Thin Officials in Russia/Part One (Nikolay Gogol)
“These were the highly respected officials of the town. Alas! The fat ones of this world know how to manage their affairs better than the thin ones. The thin ones are mostly employed on special assignments or are merely carried on the civil service list, and flit hither and yon. Their existence is weightless, insubstantialContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Fat and Thin Officials in Russia/Part One (Nikolay Gogol)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: OFF TO SIEM REAP TO VISIT ANGKOR WAT AND PLAY SOME GOLF
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: OFF TO SIEM REAP TO SEE ANGKOR WAT AND PLAY SOME GOLF Up with Bobby Jr. and Amira who gussied themselves up and we went for breakfast at the Waterfront Restaurant at our hotel the Bangkok Peninsula. What a lovely spot enjoying the breeze offContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: OFF TO SIEM REAP TO VISIT ANGKOR WAT AND PLAY SOME GOLF”
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