“A salad would go so well with the vegetable stew she had simmering on the stove, a mixture of potatoes, leeks and sorrel chopped up and then cooked with fried onion! The whole house reeked of this fried onion, which is a pleasant smell at first but soon turns rancid. Its foul odour penetrates theContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Foul Odour of Miner’s Pauper Cuisine (Émile Zola)”
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RKS French Literature: Parisian Bourgeoise Shareholders Visit the Squalid French Coal Mining Town (Émile Zola)
“Mme Hennebeau was already growing tired of this visit, happy one minute to alleviate the tedium of her exile by playing this role of a zoo guide, then immediately repulsed by the vague odour of poverty that hung everywhere, despite the cleanliness of the carefully selected houses she dared to enter. In any case allContinue reading “RKS French Literature: Parisian Bourgeoise Shareholders Visit the Squalid French Coal Mining Town (Émile Zola)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: COZYING UP WITH BIRTHDAY BOY SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: COZYING UP WITH BIRTHDAY BOY SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE Sir Reginald Nicomshire was delighted to see me again. We last met at his Good Class Bungalow in Singapore for my Singapore Westie of the Year victory party. He was with a rather young lady, perhaps tooContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: COZYING UP WITH BIRTHDAY BOY SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE”
RKS French Literature: The Charity of the Family of the Owner of the Coal Mines (Émile Zola)
“The Grégoires delegated the distribution of alms to Cécile. It was their idea of giving her a good education. One had to be charitable, they said, their house was God’s house. Moreover, they flattered themselves that they were intelligent about their charity, being forever concerned that they should not be duped and encourage evil ways.Continue reading “RKS French Literature: The Charity of the Family of the Owner of the Coal Mines (Émile Zola)”
RKS French Literature: The Underground Hell of a French Coal Mine (Émile Zola)
“Stretched out on their sides, they were now tapping away harder than ever in their single-minded determination to fill a decent number of tubs. They became oblivious to all else as they gave themselves up to this furious pursuit of a reward so dearly won. They ceased to notice the water streaming down and causingContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Underground Hell of a French Coal Mine (Émile Zola)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: AN EASY SOLUTION FOR WORLD PEACE!
AN EASY SOLUTION FOR WORLD PEACE! As I watch the television news there is hatred in so many countries for so many reasons perhaps politics being the main culprit. Look at the polarization in the United States where it is Democrats on one side of the fence and Republicans on the other. No trust. NoContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: AN EASY SOLUTION FOR WORLD PEACE!”
RKS French Literature: An Abused Childhood (Émile Zola)
“For a moment he was lost in contemplation of the dark reaches of the mine; and as he sat there, deep beneath the crushing weight of the earth, his mind went back to his childhood, to his mother, when she was still pretty and game for the struggle, to how she’d been abandoned by hisContinue reading “RKS French Literature: An Abused Childhood (Émile Zola)”
RKS Japanese Literature: The Steam Train Representative of Twentieth-Century Civilization (Natsume Sōseki)
“We are being dragged deeper into the real world, which I define as the world that contains trains. Nothing can be more quintessentially representative of twentieth-century civilization than the steam train. It roars along, packed tight with hundreds of people in one box, merciless in its progress, and all those hundreds crammed in there mustContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Steam Train Representative of Twentieth-Century Civilization (Natsume Sōseki)”
RKS French Literature: Extreme Poverty and Quasi Starvation (Émile Zola)
“Buried beneath the blanket, all that could be seen of her was her long face with its broad features, which had a certain heavy beauty, but which at the age of thirty-nine, had already been disfigured by her life of poverty and the seven children she had borne. She told him how there was noContinue reading “RKS French Literature: Extreme Poverty and Quasi Starvation (Émile Zola)”
RKS French Literature: The Reek of the Human Herd in the Coal Miner’s Tenement (Émile Zola)
“At the Maheus’ house, Number Sixteen in the second block, nothing stirred. Thick darkness filled the one and only first-floor room: it bore down like a crushing weight on the people sleeping there, whose presence could be felt rather than seen as they lay crowded together, their mouths open, stunned by exhaustion. Despite the bitterContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Reek of the Human Herd in the Coal Miner’s Tenement (Émile Zola)”
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