“If our life did not fade and vanish like the dews of Adashino’s grave or the drifting smoke from Toribe’s burning grounds, but lingered on forever, how little the world would move us. It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful. Why cling to life which cannot last forever only to arriveContinue reading “RKS Literature: Why Cling to Life to an Ugly Old Age (Yoshida Kenkō)”
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RKS Literature: How to be an Elegant Lover (Yoshida Kenkō)
“The elegant thing is for a lover to wander aimlessly hither and yon, drenched with the frosts or dews of night, tormented by the fears of his parents’ reproaches and the censure of the world, the heart beset with uncertainties, yet for all that sleeping alone often, though always fitfully. On the other hand, heContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to be an Elegant Lover (Yoshida Kenkō)”
RKS Literature: Murder: Aesthetics and Morality (Thomas De Quincey)
“Murder, for instance, may be laid hold of by its moral handle, (as it generally is in the pulpit, and at the Old Bailey) and that I confess, is its weak side; or it may also be treated aesthetically, as the Germans call it, that is in relation to good taste.” Thomas de Quincey, “OnContinue reading “RKS Literature: Murder: Aesthetics and Morality (Thomas De Quincey)”
RKS Literature: The Composition of the Fine Art of Murder (Thomas De Quincey)
“People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed-a knife-a purse-and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.” Thomas de Quincey, “On Murder Considered as One of theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Composition of the Fine Art of Murder (Thomas De Quincey)”
Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”!
TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”! We are on a bit of a “crime roll” here so let’s move from horrific to humorous. A few years ago when Dylan the Westie was the Westie of the house there lived B and W, backyard neighbours of Fay and Bob. W and B wereContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”!”
RKS Literature: The Wild Vindictiveness of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“…suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab’s leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Wild Vindictiveness of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
Lost in Puppydom Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE!
RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE! Much to my humiliation I was picked up today after a DUI! You may have heard the great golfer Tiger Woods was also recently picked up on a DUI. I have watched this event unfold over the past day or two. Bloated and puffyContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE!”
RKS Literature: The Burning Vengeance of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“Aye, aye!, it was that accursed white whale that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye.” he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob like that of a heart-stricken moose. Aye, aye! It was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for everContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Burning Vengeance of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: TALES FROM MY HOOD: Murder!
TALES FROM MY HOOD: Murder! We reside in a quiet neighbourhood. Lots of trees. Big homes. A midtown oasis but we are not without a lurid tale or two. Naughty people (not naughty puppies) break into homes and steal cars every once and awhile but violent crime is an extreme rarity. Perhaps the greatest actContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: TALES FROM MY HOOD: Murder!”
RKS Literature: A Decaying Palazzo (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“All morning I went from one door to another. Some rudely shuttered. Some receiving their full charge of daylight. All empty and unhomely. It was a rich house. On which Time had breathed his tarnish and dust had scattered disillusion. The spider swung there; the bloated tarantula scampered on the cornices; ants had their crowdedContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Decaying Palazzo (Robert Louis Stevenson)”
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