“All morning I went from one door to another. Some rudely shuttered. Some receiving their full charge of daylight. All empty and unhomely. It was a rich house. On which Time had breathed his tarnish and dust had scattered disillusion. The spider swung there; the bloated tarantula scampered on the cornices; ants had their crowdedContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Decaying Palazzo (Robert Louis Stevenson)”
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RKS Literature: Aristocratic Body but Degenerate Intelligence (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The family blood had been impoverished, perhaps by long interbreeding, which I knew to be a common error among the proud and exclusive. No decline, indeed, was to be traced in the body, which had been handed down unimpaired in shapeliness and strength; and the faces of today were struck as sharply from the mint,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Aristocratic Body but Degenerate Intelligence (Robert Louis Stevenson)”
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