“They pay more attention to omens than any other people in the world, and they are better than others in telling good omens from bad. For let me tell you that when a man sets out for some destination and happens along the way to hear someone sneeze, he immediately sits down on the roadContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Big Sneeze in Maabar (Marco Polo)”
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RKS Literature: Suicidal Execution in Maabar (Marco Polo)
“When a man has committed a crime that warrants the death sentence and the king has decreed his execution. The condemned man declares he wishes to kill himself in honour and adoration of such-and-such idol. The king replies that he approves of this. Then all the relatives and friends of the man who must killContinue reading “RKS Literature: Suicidal Execution in Maabar (Marco Polo)”
RKS Literature: Warmest Climes Nurse Cruellest Fangs (Herman Melville)
“Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders. Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is. That in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Warmest Climes Nurse Cruellest Fangs (Herman Melville)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY D. STEPHEN’S OWNER ARRIVES IN HONG KONG: IS THERE A MOVIE ROLE FOR FORMER MISS HONG KONG?
RORY D. STEPHEN’S OWNER ARRIVES IN HONG KONG: IS THERE A MOVIE ROLE FOR FORMER MISS HONG KONG? NEW TERRITORIES POST DAILY Bob, owner of recently liberated Rory D. Stephen, currently residing with Singaporean Prime Minister Wong in Singapore, after a daring rescue arrived at Hong Kong International Airport from Toronto connecting to Singapore. TheContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: RORY D. STEPHEN’S OWNER ARRIVES IN HONG KONG: IS THERE A MOVIE ROLE FOR FORMER MISS HONG KONG?”
RKS Literature: The Fate of a Whale Boat Jumper (Part One): (Herman Melville)
“Stubb suddenly dropped all advice, and concluded with a peremptory command, ‘Stick to the boat Pip, or by the Lord, I won’t pick you up if you jump; mind that. We can’t afford to lose whales by the like of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would in Alabama. Bear thatContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Fate of a Whale Boat Jumper (Part One): (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Seagulls as Air Sharks (Herman Melville)
“There’s a most doleful and most mocking funeral! The sea vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or speckled. In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral, they most piously do bounce. OhContinue reading “RKS Literature: Seagulls as Air Sharks (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: The 500 Wives and Concubines of the King of Maabar (Marco Polo)
“I give you my word that the king has at least 500 wives or concubines. For I assure you the moment he lays eyes on a beautiful woman or girl he wants her for himself. On one occasion this led him into the shameful behaviour I will describe to you. Let me tell you thatContinue reading “RKS Literature: The 500 Wives and Concubines of the King of Maabar (Marco Polo)”
RKS Literature: The Naked King of Maabar (Marco Polo)
“I can also tell you that in this whole province of Maabar there is no need of tailors or needleworkers to cut or stitch clothes, because all the people go naked all year round. For I assure you that their weather is temperate at all seasons-which is to say it is never cold or hot-Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Naked King of Maabar (Marco Polo)”
RKS Literature: The Cannibal and the Gourmand (Herman Melville)
“Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal’s jaw? Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that saltedContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Cannibal and the Gourmand (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Gay and Jovial Spirited Sharks (Herman Melville)
“…yet there is no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale; moored by night to a whaleship at sea. If you have never seen that sight then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, andContinue reading “RKS Literature: Gay and Jovial Spirited Sharks (Herman Melville)”
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