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RKS Literature: Evil Children Burning a Woman Wrapping Up Sausages in a Poster of Big Brother

‘Did I ever tell you old boy,’ he said, chuckling round the stem of his pipe,’ about the time those two nippers of mine set fire to the old market woman’s skirt because they saw her wrapping up sausages in a poster of B.B.? Sneaked up behind her and set fire to it with aContinue reading “RKS Literature: Evil Children Burning a Woman Wrapping Up Sausages in a Poster of Big Brother”

RKS Literature: Control of Society Through Falsification/Rectification (George Orwell)

“This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs-to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this wayContinue reading “RKS Literature: Control of Society Through Falsification/Rectification (George Orwell)”

RKS Literature: These Undertakers Will Fix You Up Real Good (Evelyn Waugh)

“We had a loved one last month who was found drowned. He had been in the ocean a month and they only identified him by his wrist-watch. “they fixed that stiff,” said the hostess disconcertingly lapsing from the high diction she had hitherto employed, ‘so he looked like it was his wedding day. The boysContinue reading “RKS Literature: These Undertakers Will Fix You Up Real Good (Evelyn Waugh)”

RKS Literature: Your White Skin is the Problem (Andrea Levy)

“You know what your trouble is man?’ he said. ‘Your white skin. You think it makes you better than me. You think it give you the right to lord over a black man. But you know what it make you, man? It make you white. That is all, man. White. No better or worse thanContinue reading “RKS Literature: Your White Skin is the Problem (Andrea Levy)”

RKS Literature: World War II Luck in England (Andrea Levy)

“Luck is a funny thing. To some only a large win of money at the pools is luck. Or finding a valuable jewel at your feet on a London street. That surely is luck. But during the war luck take another turn. The bomb that just miss you is luck. Only your leg blown offContinue reading “RKS Literature: World War II Luck in England (Andrea Levy)”