All this month the nuns have been preparing my little boy for his first Confession. In a few days he will go in a crocodile from the school to the parish church; enter the strange looking cabinet in the corner of the aisle and see in the dusk of this secretive box an old priest’sContinue reading “RKS Irish Literature: The Game of The Catholic Confession (Seán O’Faoláin)”
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RKS American Literature: An Elusive Love Lost Forever (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him. In a sort of panic he pushed the palms of his hands into his eyes and tried to bring up a picture of the waters lapping on Sherry Island and the moonlit veranda, and gingham on the golf-links and the dry sun and the goldContinue reading “RKS American Literature: An Elusive Love Lost Forever (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Winter Approaches the Village (Władysław Reymont)
Winter was approaching…… Still tussling with autumn, it rampaged, bellowing in the blue distances like a fierce and hungry beast, and who could say when it would trounce her and leap to savage up the world with its ice-cold fangs… Still fitful were the scatterings of pallid snow-autumn snow…. Bewildered days still came, blue sicklyContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Winter Approaches the Village (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: The Old Man, a Young Lass and the Devil (Władysław Reymont)
‘When an old man takes a young lass, the devil rejoices, for he’ll be the one to profit,’ declared the old beggar sagely, scraping the bottom of his bowl loudly. Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909 Photo: R. Kennedy Stephen
RKS African Literature: BRUTE FORCE: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
But to be on the safe side, Kimeendeeri will build prisons and law courts and will hire armed forces, so that anyone who opposes Shamba’s system of laws or wishes to leave the confines of the farm will be punished by being jailed or detained in pits of total darkness or shot and thrown toContinue reading “RKS African Literature: BRUTE FORCE: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
On the farm he’ll build churches or mosques, depending on the religious inclinations of the workers. He will employ priests. Every Sunday the workers will read sermons that will instruct them that the system of milking human sweat, human blood and human brains-the system of the robbery of human labour power and human skills isContinue reading “RKS African Literature: RELIGION: Controlling the Workers of KENYON-SAXON EXPORTERS: HUMAN BLOOD AND FLESH (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: Rent Control in Nairobi, Kenya (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
On Saturday morning Warĩĩnga was visited by her landlord, the owner of the house in Ofafa, Jericho, Nairobi, in which she rented a room. (A house or a bird’s nest? The floor was pitted with holes, the walls gaped with cracks, the ceiling leaked.). The landlord told Warĩĩnga he was increasing her rent. She refusedContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Rent Control in Nairobi, Kenya (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
