“The fact is that when a child is born here they anoint him once a week with sesame oil, and this turns him a great deal darker than when he was born. For let me tell you that the blackest men here are held in highest regard and considered superior to those who are notContinue reading “RKS Literature: Whites as the Devil in Maabar (Marco Polo)”
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“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY FEELS HIS BOOK IS BEING TAKEN OVER!
RORY FEELS HIS BOOK IS BEING TAKEN OVER! I will reveal the complete story of my abduction up to my liberation. Bob is completing a contract with The Singapore Times for this big scoop. The payments will be used for bursaries for students at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Veterinary Bioscience/Clinical Science. An impostor even wroteContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY FEELS HIS BOOK IS BEING TAKEN OVER!”
RKS Literature: A Final Warning to Ahab Against His Frenzied Chase of Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“Great God! But for one single instant show thyself,” cried Starbuck; never, never wilt thou capture him, old man-In Jesus’ name no more of this, that’s worse than the devil’s madness. Two days chased; twice stove to splinters; thy very leg once more snatched from under thee; thy evil shadow gone-all good angels mobbing theeContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Final Warning to Ahab Against His Frenzied Chase of Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: The Frenzied Chase of Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“The frenzies of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked anew. Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them may have felt before; these were now not only now kept out of sight through the growing awe of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sidesContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Frenzied Chase of Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” :PRESS CONFERENCE OF PRIME MINISTER LAWRENCE WONG AND BOB AT SRI TEMASEK (official transcript)
PRESS CONFERENCE OF PRIME MINISTER LAWRENCE WONG AND BOB AT SRI TEMASEK (official transcript) Prime Minister Wong: I would like to introduce you to Bob, master of Rory D. Stephen, who has stayed a few days with me and may I say he is a delightful pup. My grandchildren spent hours playing with Rory. CutenessContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom” :PRESS CONFERENCE OF PRIME MINISTER LAWRENCE WONG AND BOB AT SRI TEMASEK (official transcript)”
RKS Literature: The Saintly Earth of Maabar (Marco Polo)
“You should also know that a marvel such as I will describe happens here. Now let me tell you that the Christians who come here on pilgrimage gather some of the earth from the place where the saint was killed and take it back to their own country. If anyone falls ill with a quartanContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Saintly Earth of Maabar (Marco Polo)”
RKS Literature: The Big Sneeze in Maabar (Marco Polo)
“They pay more attention to omens than any other people in the world, and they are better than others in telling good omens from bad. For let me tell you that when a man sets out for some destination and happens along the way to hear someone sneeze, he immediately sits down on the roadContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Big Sneeze in Maabar (Marco Polo)”
RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires : Part Two (Yoshimoto Banana)
“Whenever I caught a cold. My mother would mix up a drink for me, dissolving honey in hot water, adding a splash of whisky, squeezing in the juice of a lemon. She was still doing that for me when I was at high school. On one of those evenings when children were bleeding and beingContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires : Part Two (Yoshimoto Banana)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: BOB, MASTER OF RORY D. STEPHEN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE: TO MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER WONG AND REUNITE WITH RORY HIS WESTIE
BOB, MASTER OF RORY D. STEPHEN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE: TO MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER WONG THE SINGAPORE TIMES (Lok Bok reporter at large and gossip columnist) Bob, Master of West Highland Terrier Rory D. Stephen, recently liberated by the Singapore Police Force (SPF), arrived early this morning from Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific. Thoroughly exhaustedContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: BOB, MASTER OF RORY D. STEPHEN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE: TO MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER WONG AND REUNITE WITH RORY HIS WESTIE”
RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires (Yoshimoto Banana): Part One
“One morning her son, at the height of his teenage cockiness, goes off to school as always, hardly taking a sip of coffee, long and lanky in his favourite jeans. To his mother, he looks the same as he always has, ever since he was a boy. That look is where all her memories reside-it’sContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Mothers of Their “Disappeared” Sons and Daughters Congregate at Las Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires (Yoshimoto Banana): Part One”
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