“The Awkwardness with which nakedness is usually accompanied depends on the awareness of our defenseless whiteness, which has since lost all connection with the colours of the surrounding world and for that reason finds itself in artificial disharmony with it. But the sun’s impact restores the deficiency, makes us equal in our naked rights withContinue reading “RKS 2023 Literature: The Awkwardness of Nakedness”
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RKS Literature: The Search For God
“The search for God: the longing of any hound for a master; give me a boss and I shall kneel at his enormous feet. All this is earthly, father, headmaster, rector, president of the board, tsar, God. Numbers, numbers-and one wants so much to find the biggest number, so that all the rest may meanContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Search For God”
RKS Poetry: Toronto Hijacked Yet Again But Don’t You Dare Criticize!
Toronto Hijacked Yet Again But Don’t You Dare Criticize! Bike lane tyranny where the miniscule lord over the manyand unlike the Lord brazenly give fingers to motorists while breaking all laws known to cyclingCharity runs down main streetsCharity walks all over the placeCharity hiking down expresswaysCharity bikingStreet festivals Global inclusion touted by exclusionists in powerContinue reading “RKS Poetry: Toronto Hijacked Yet Again But Don’t You Dare Criticize!”
RKS Literature: Politics; The Unpaid and Paid Windbags
“Like many unpaid windbags he thought that he could combine the reports he read in the papers by paid windbags into an orderly scheme, upon following which a logical and sober mind (in this case his mind) could with no effort explain and foresee a multitude of world events. The names of countries and theirContinue reading “RKS Literature: Politics; The Unpaid and Paid Windbags”
RKS Children’s Literature: “Children Who Dance in the Rain”: Materialism and Privilege Meets Spiritualism and Abject Poverty
“Children Who Dance in the Rain” is Sophie’s adventure from a cozy cocoon of materialism and privilege of the First World into the spiritualism and abject poverty of the Third World. Sophie has it mighty good as the daughter of Indian immigrants eating fancy breakfasts and playing on her tablet. She is spoiled and selfishContinue reading “RKS Children’s Literature: “Children Who Dance in the Rain”: Materialism and Privilege Meets Spiritualism and Abject Poverty”
RKS Literature: A Russian’s View of Politics
“He, to whom so called politics (that ridiculous sequence of pacts, conflicts, aggravations, frictions, discords, collapses and the transformation of perfectly innocent little towns into the names of international treaties) meant nothing, would sometimes immerse himself into the vast bowels of Vasilev and live for an instant actuated by his, Vasilev’s inner mechanism where nextContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Russian’s View of Politics”
RKS Literature: “Zorba the Greek”: Splendid Ierapetra Wine
“We clinked our glasses and drank. Splendid Ierapetra wine, as black as hare’s blood. When you drank, it was though you were receiving earth-blood as Holy Communion. You flourished. Your veins were filled to the brim with strength, your heart with kindness: if you were a coward, you became brave: if you were already braveContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Zorba the Greek”: Splendid Ierapetra Wine”
RKS Literature: “Zorba the Greek”: Will God be Ashamed in Front of Zorba?
“I’m telling you Boss: all these things that happen here in this world are unjust, unjust, unjust! I don’t sign my approval, I the tiny worm, the slug, the Zorba. Why should young boys and girls die while decrepit oldsters remain? Why should small children die? I had a small child, my Dimitraki, and heContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Zorba the Greek”: Will God be Ashamed in Front of Zorba?”
RKS Literature: Zorba the Greek: Thoughts on Madame Hortense
“We were waiting for Madame Hortense today so that she could join us in celebrating the resurrection. We had roasted lamb on the spit, had prepared stuffed lamb intestines as an appetizer, and spread a white sheet on the sand, and had dyed some eggs. Zorba and I, half in jest, half with emotion, hadContinue reading “RKS Literature: Zorba the Greek: Thoughts on Madame Hortense”
RKS Literature: The Biggest Sin for Zorba!
“Because you young Greek, whoever has the chance of sleeping with a woman and does not sleep with her commits a great sin. If a woman calls you to her bed and you do not go, your soul is destroyed! That woman will sigh at the moment of God’s great judgement and that sigh ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Biggest Sin for Zorba!”
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