“She’s come out to lay her claws into a husband of course. As if it wasn’t well known! When a girl’s failed everywhere else she tries India, where every man’s pining for the sight of a white woman. The Indian marriage-market they call it. Meat market it ought to be. Shiploads of ‘em coming outContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Failed English Girls to the Indian Meat Market (George Orwell)”
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RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Talkers vs. Beauties (Andy Warhol)
“I don’t really care that much about ‘Beauties’. What I really like are ‘Talkers’. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It’s not ‘talkies’. Talkers are doing something. Beauties are beingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Talkers vs. Beauties (Andy Warhol)”
RKS French Literature: Father Ranvier the Catholic Priest Exploits the Misery of the Striking Coal Miners (Émile Zola)
“He was using the strike-the terrible poverty, the sense of grievance, sharpened by hunger-with the ardour of a missionary preaching to savages for the greater glory of his religion. He said that the Church was on the side of the poor and that one day it would cause justice to triumph by calling down theContinue reading “RKS French Literature: Father Ranvier the Catholic Priest Exploits the Misery of the Striking Coal Miners (Émile Zola)”
RKS French Literature: Will Elected Officials Be the Answer for Improving the Lot of the French Coal Miners? (Émile Zola)
“But you didn’t get bread on the table by voting for splendid fellows who then promptly went off and led the life of Riley and spared no more of a thought for the poor than they did for an old pair of boots. No, one way or another it was time to put a stopContinue reading “RKS French Literature: Will Elected Officials Be the Answer for Improving the Lot of the French Coal Miners? (Émile Zola)”
RKS French Literature: A Long Tale of Woe for the French Working Class After the 1789 French Revolution (Émile Zola)
“This time the three men were in agreement. One after the other they spoke in despairing tones, and theirs was a long tale of woe. The working man wouldn’t be able to survive; the Revolution had only made things worse for him; the bourgeoisie had been living off the fat of the land since 1789,Continue reading “RKS French Literature: A Long Tale of Woe for the French Working Class After the 1789 French Revolution (Émile Zola)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: WHO IS BOBBY FONG JR.?
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN WHO IS BOBBY FONG JR.? Bobby Fong Jr. is Madame Fong’s 326-pound son of Madame Fong. Like Julian in the Canadian sitcom “Trailer Park Boys” he has instead of a rum and coke on the rocks a durian juice on the rocks spiked with vodkaContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: WHO IS BOBBY FONG JR.?”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):A WORLD LEADER DONE REAL GOOD IN SCHOOL BUT AS TO MATHEMATICS AIN’T SO GOOD INDEED!
A WORLD LEADER DONE REAL GOOD IN SCHOOL BUT AS TO MATHEMATICS AIN’T SO GOOD INDEED! Wizard in the business world (despite a bankruptcy or two) Exquisite diplomat (friends galore) World class golfer (a few discrete kicks of the ball) Kentucky Fried Chicken Gold Card Member (wolfed down behind the shrubs on The Lawn) ThisContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):A WORLD LEADER DONE REAL GOOD IN SCHOOL BUT AS TO MATHEMATICS AIN’T SO GOOD INDEED!”
RKS Literature: A Wild Saturday Night in Paris Ends (George Orwell)
“By half-past one the last drop of pleasure had evaporated, leaving nothing but headaches. We perceived we were not splendid inhabitants of a splendid world, but a crew of underpaid workmen grown squalidly and dismally drink. We went on swallowing the wine, but it was only from habit, and the stuff seemed suddenly nauseating. One’sContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Wild Saturday Night in Paris Ends (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: ON THE PATH TO MEDIA FAME
The Singapore Times Exclusive: ON THE PATH TO MEDIA FAME Bobby Jr. had suggested I could become Southeast Asia’s most famous West Highland Terrier For what purpose I did not know nor did Bobby Jr. reveal such. After a most delectable room service breakfast in Bobby Jr.’s Singapore Shangri-La suite including chicken congee which IContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: ON THE PATH TO MEDIA FAME”
RKS Literature: The Itinerant Trade of Pies in Old London (Henry Mayhew)
“The itinerant trade in pies is one of the most ancient of the street callings in London. The meat pies are made of beef or mutton; the fish pies of eels; the fruit of apples, currants, gooseberries, plums, damsons, cherries, raspberries or rhubarb, according to the season-and occasionally of mincemeat. A few years ago theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Itinerant Trade of Pies in Old London (Henry Mayhew)”
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