“Every day Yun would mix her rice with tea. She liked to eat a spicy, salty kind of bean curd that Soochow people call “stinking bean curd”. She also liked pickled cucumber. These last two things I hated all my life, so one day I said to her, ‘Dogs have no stomach, and eat dungContinue reading “RKS Literature: An Insult to Stinking Bean Curd and Those Who Eat it (Shen Fu)”
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RKS Literature: Married Couples Gazing at the Sunset Will Not be Talking About it (Shen Fu)
“Yun said, ‘The world is so vast, but still everyone looks up at the same moon. I wonder if there is another couple in the world as much in love as we are.’ ‘Naturally there are people everywhere who like to enjoy the night air and gaze at the moon,’ I said, “and there areContinue reading “RKS Literature: Married Couples Gazing at the Sunset Will Not be Talking About it (Shen Fu)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: I SENSE A NEW CHAPTER? A DAMN FINE DAY!
I SENSE A NEW CHAPTER? A DAMN FINE DAY! We all woke up to an inch of snow on the on the way greening grass this morning. This is 6April! We are too weary in Toronto to give a damn anymore as after all Iran is to be decimated a few hours ago. Was it?Continue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: I SENSE A NEW CHAPTER? A DAMN FINE DAY!”
RKS Literature: Your One Chance When Being Charged by Elephants (Mary Kingsley)
“In the present case I remembered, hastily, that your one chance when charged by several elephants is to dodge them around trees, working downwind all the time, and go home. It was evident from the utter unconcern of these monsters that I was downwind now, so I had only attend to dodging, and I promptlyContinue reading “RKS Literature: Your One Chance When Being Charged by Elephants (Mary Kingsley)”
RKS Literature: Smoked Meat Cannibal Style (Mary Kingsley)
“Moreover I fancy it safer not to have an overpowering percentage of Fans in the party, as I know we shall have considerable stretches of uninhabited forest to traverse; and the Ajuma say that the Fans will kill people, i.e. the black traders who venture into their country, and cut them up into neat pieces,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Smoked Meat Cannibal Style (Mary Kingsley)”
RKS Literature: West African Villagers See Their First White Person (Mary Kingsley)
“Every child in the place as soon as it saw my white face let a howl out of it as if it had seen his Satanic Majesty, horns, hoofs, tail and all, and fled into the nearest hut, headlong, and I fear, from the continuance of the screams, had fits. The town was exceedingly filthy-theContinue reading “RKS Literature: West African Villagers See Their First White Person (Mary Kingsley)”
RKS Literature: A Man Should Never Have a Wife (Yoshida Kenkō)
“The one thing a man should not have is a wife. It is depressing to watch her bear children and fuss over them, and things don’t end with his death, for then you have the shameful sight of her growing old and decrepit as a nun. No matter who the woman may be, you wouldContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Man Should Never Have a Wife (Yoshida Kenkō)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: TERROR ON A SUBURBAN STREET: COYOTE CONFRONTATION!
TERROR ON A SUBURBAN STREET: COYOTE CONFRONTATION! Remember the Seinfeld episode where Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer were in a certain contest that had some reference to being masters in their domain? I am master of my backyard domain as there I am the hunter. Squirrells, opossums and rabbits are my prey. Last night IContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: TERROR ON A SUBURBAN STREET: COYOTE CONFRONTATION!”
RKS Literature: Truman Capote Muses on Japanese Food (Truman Capote)
“The steak was excellent; Japanese take a just pride in the quality of their beef. The spaghetti, a dish popular in Japan was not; nor was the rest-the conglomeration of peas, potatoes and beans. Granted the menu was a queer one, it is on the whole a mistake to order Western food in Japan, yetContinue reading “RKS Literature: Truman Capote Muses on Japanese Food (Truman Capote)”
RKS Literature: The Entertaining and Typical Drunk (Yoshida Kenkō)
“All things considered, a drunkard is so entertaining he can be forgiven his sins. Think of the charming scene when a master throws open the door on his servant, who is sound asleep next morning after an exhausting night on the drink. The poor befuddled fellow rushes off, rubbing his bleary eyes, topknot exposed onContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Entertaining and Typical Drunk (Yoshida Kenkō)”
