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RKS British Literature: Hatred of the Brabant and Flemish Mercenaries (Henry Gilbert)

The Englishmen hated these foreign invaders with a hatred too deadly for mercy, and as they shot them down they knew their arrows were loaded with vengeance for unutterable deeds of murder and cruelty committed upon defenceless women, little children, and unweaponed men, when these marauding wretches had spread like plague through the land underContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Hatred of the Brabant and Flemish Mercenaries (Henry Gilbert)”

RKS British Literature: The King’s Justice Worth No More Than a Roast Pippin (Henry Gilbert)

‘Softly, good marshal,’ replied Robin with a laugh. ‘Ye know who I am, and ye know that I reckon the king’s justice or his marshal at no more worth than a roast pippin. Thy justice!’. He laughed scornfully. ‘What is it? A thing ye sell to the rich lords and the evil-living prelates, while youContinue reading “RKS British Literature: The King’s Justice Worth No More Than a Roast Pippin (Henry Gilbert)”

RKS LITERATURE: “I Hate and I Love”: Bright White Teeth Cleaned by Urine

Because he has bright white teeth Egnatius whips out a tooth flash on all possible & impossible) occasions. You’re in court. Counsel for defence concludes a moving peroration (Grin.) At a funeral, on all sides heartbroken mothers weep for only sons. (Grin.) Where, when, whatever the place or time – grin. It could be aContinue reading “RKS LITERATURE: “I Hate and I Love”: Bright White Teeth Cleaned by Urine”

RKS British Literature: A Great Fear and Dread of the Forest (Henry Gilbert)

The forest he had heard was a place of dread, for the other villeins had told terrible tales. Of monsters who flew by night and hid in dark thickets by day to snap up unwary travellers; of hills from whose tops at night the glow of fire shone forth, and within which little dark elvesContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Great Fear and Dread of the Forest (Henry Gilbert)”

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): 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 many and unlike the Lord brazenly give fingers to motorists while breaking all laws known to cyclists Charity runs clogging city streets and expressways Charity walks all over the place “for a noble but perhaps obscure cause”Continue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): Toronto Hijacked Yet Again but Don’t You Dare Criticize”

RKS LITERATURE: “I Hate and I Love”: My Sweet Ipisthilla (Catullus)

Call me to you at siesta we’ll make love my gold & jewels my treasure trove my sweet Ipsithilla when you invite me lock no doors nor change your mind & step outside But stay at home & in your room Prepare yourself To come nine times Straight off together In fact, if you shouldContinue reading “RKS LITERATURE: “I Hate and I Love”: My Sweet Ipisthilla (Catullus)”

Circe and the Cyclops: Beware of Circe the Nymph with the Lovely Braids! (Homer)

She opened her gleaming doors at once and stepped forth, inviting them all in, and in they went, all innocence. Only Eurylochus stayed behind – he sensed a trap…. She ushered them in to sit on high backed chairs, then she mixed them a potion – cheese, barley and pale honey mulled in Pramnian wineContinue reading “Circe and the Cyclops: Beware of Circe the Nymph with the Lovely Braids! (Homer)”

RKS British Literature: Who is Friar Tuck (Henry Gilbert)

‘Father Tuck is no hermit; he liveth not a wicked life as other false hermits do. He ever comes and solaces the poor in our village, and any good he can do if one is sick, that he doth for no payment. He is great of limb, and can fight well with the bow, theContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Who is Friar Tuck (Henry Gilbert)”

RKS British Literature: Robin Cleans Up the Marauding Band of Outlaws (Henry Gilbert)

Robin had had a very short way with these marauding bands of robbers, who made no distinction between rich and poor, but would soon rob a poor serf of his last piece of salted pork or bag of meal as a rich priest of his purse of gold. Whenever Robin learned of the hiding placeContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Robin Cleans Up the Marauding Band of Outlaws (Henry Gilbert)”

Circe and the Cyclops: The Cyclops Attacks Odysseus’ Men in His Cave (Homer)

Not a word in reply to that, the ruthless brute. Lurching up. He lunged with his hands towards my men and snatching two at once, rapping them up on the ground he knocked them dead like pups – their brains gushed out all over, soaked the floor – and ripping them limb to limb toContinue reading “Circe and the Cyclops: The Cyclops Attacks Odysseus’ Men in His Cave (Homer)”