“Back in his apartment the grayness returned. His cocktails had died, making him sleepy, somewhat befogged and inclined to be surly. Lord Verulam-he? The very thought was bitter. Anthony Patch with no record of achievement, without courage, without strength to be satisfied with truth when it was given to him. Oh, he was a pretentiousContinue reading “RKS Literature: Cocktails and a Life of Nothingness of the Idle Rich”
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Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut :Rescue Dog Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Chapter Four
So here I am in Canada with my foster parents Anthony and Susan. Gradually I am starting to feel good about myself. I am gaining confidence. I am saddled with countless bad dreams about my treatment on the streets of Cairo, master Anwar’s state abduction and execution for simply being critical of the Egyptian government.Continue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut :Rescue Dog Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Chapter Four”
RKS Literature: United States Congress as a Pigsty
“On this minor his dream faded-work to do: he tried to imagine himself in Congress rooting around that litter of that incredible pigsty with narrow and porcine brows he saw pictured sometimes in the rotogravure sections of the Sunday newspapers, those glorified proletarians babbling to the nation the ideas of high school seniors! Little menContinue reading “RKS Literature: United States Congress as a Pigsty”
Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Canada My New Home! Chapter Three
There is a big stir at Toronto Pearson Airport when our crates are unloaded from the airplane and placed in the cargo area. There are television cameras and journalists like my deceased master Anwar. I wonder if anyone is watching us in Egypt? Many journalists are interested in me knowing Anwar was my master. TheyContinue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Canada My New Home! Chapter Three”
Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: My Master is Dead What Hope Exists for Me? Chapter Two
As my health improves, I pay some attention to the television monitor in the recovery room of the animal hospital. I had watched BBC News with Anwar many times and I hear with crushing sorrow, so great I query if you can feel my heart breaking, that Anwar has been executed as a traitor toContinue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: My Master is Dead What Hope Exists for Me? Chapter Two”
Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: INTRODUCTION
Hello. Let me introduce myself. My name is Reggie and I am the luckiest and happiest dog in the world. Please read my story to determine why I am saying this. Before we start my story, I well tell you I am a 15-year-old Shih Tzu mix living with Master Bob and Mistress Fay inContinue reading “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: INTRODUCTION”
Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut
The Beginning or the End? Under the Rubble My name is Reggie. I was originally from Egypt. My complete story will unfold as you read further and it is quite a story of a small cast off “mutt” that had a pivotal role in the course of changing world history. From a loving owner inContinue reading “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut”
RKS Literature: Dreadful Engines That Make the Children Old (Dickens)
“Even the sunburnt faces of gipsy children, half naked though they be, suggest a drop of comfort. It is a pleasant thing to see that the sun has been there; to know that the air and light are on them every day; to feel that they are children, and lead children’s lives; that if theirContinue reading “RKS Literature: Dreadful Engines That Make the Children Old (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: The Savage Intoxication of the Moment (Dickens)
“The excitement of play, hot rooms, and glaring lights, was not calculated to allay the fever of the time. In that giddy whirl of noise and confusion, the men were delirious. Who thought of money, ruin, or the morrow, in the savage intoxication of the moment? More wine was called for, glass after glass wasContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Savage Intoxication of the Moment (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Crafty Scoundrels and Heaven (Dickens)
“Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth, or rather – for walking implies, at least, an erect position and the bearing of a man – that ever crawled and crept through life by its dirtiest and narrow ways, will gravely jot down in diaries the events of the day, and keep aContinue reading “RKS Literature: Crafty Scoundrels and Heaven (Dickens)”
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