“Over the centuries Chinese peasants have never had any control over the circumstances of their lives. Often acts of God, but more commonly acts of man, have completely disrupted any attempt to lead a rational and normal existence. Hard work seldom reaps its just rewards or even put sufficient rice into the family bowl toContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Chinese as Inveterate Gamblers”
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RKS Literature: The Sea Dictates Everything
“By the time we were off Livingston, any hope of getting into the harbour was out of the question. The entrance to Livingston Harbour is shallow with a series of low lying rocks directly in front of it. Even in calm weather you had to know your way in, as many a visiting sailor hadContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Sea Dictates Everything”
RKS 2025 Literature: A Physician Unable to Establish a True Relationship
“This silly notion served to help me overcome my emotions and see him for what he was-a man relying on his social status as the sagacious doctor to add effect to his words. It was the insensitivity of the physician telling his patient he is going to die under the mistaken belief that being bluntContinue reading “RKS 2025 Literature: A Physician Unable to Establish a True Relationship”
RKS 2025 Literature: The Mysterious Female Mind
“God may work in mysterious ways, but perhaps not as mysterious as the female mind-unless of course God is a woman, which would explain a lot of things. Men, it seems to me, either obey a law, never questioning it, or they break it with intent. Women see it for what it is-legislation or aContinue reading “RKS 2025 Literature: The Mysterious Female Mind”
RKS 2025 Literature: Pissed Australian Men
“Sure, there were drunks among the Aboriginal people, but fair go-my own family testified to the fact these were greatly outnumbered by drunks of my own race. The white male population remained more or less pissed for the first hundred years in Australia. Moreover the second century of white occupation isn’t proving to be aContinue reading “RKS 2025 Literature: Pissed Australian Men”
RKS Literature: Napalm Nightmare (Bryce Courtenay)
“When I came to I was lying on a large raised platform together with several wounded Korean and Chinese soldiers. The bloke next to me was sitting up as if he was frozen into position, with his hands clasped about his knees. He was a blackish brown colour, the skin on his body so completelyContinue reading “RKS Literature: Napalm Nightmare (Bryce Courtenay)”
RKS Literature: Life in the 1930’s at the Colored Orphan Asylum in Harlem (Bryce Courtenay)
“The idea of a black orphan aspiring to rise above his or her predestined station in life simply never occurred to them. Children such as Jimmy who were demonstrably bright were regraded as potentially dangerous. They would only become frustrated in later life and, as a consequence, turn to crime. It was better to subdueContinue reading “RKS Literature: Life in the 1930’s at the Colored Orphan Asylum in Harlem (Bryce Courtenay)”
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