“We were waiting for Madame Hortense today so that she could join us in celebrating the resurrection. We had roasted lamb on the spit, had prepared stuffed lamb intestines as an appetizer, and spread a white sheet on the sand, and had dyed some eggs. Zorba and I, half in jest, half with emotion, hadContinue reading “RKS Literature: Zorba the Greek: Thoughts on Madame Hortense”
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RKS Literature: The Biggest Sin for Zorba!
“Because you young Greek, whoever has the chance of sleeping with a woman and does not sleep with her commits a great sin. If a woman calls you to her bed and you do not go, your soul is destroyed! That woman will sigh at the moment of God’s great judgement and that sigh ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Biggest Sin for Zorba!”
RKS Literature: Zorba the Greek on Greek and Slavic Women!
“You’d better know, Boss, that the Slavic woman isn’t like these cheap, selfish, self-seeking Greek women who sell sex by the gram and do everything they can to slip it to you underweight, cheating you on the scales. The Slavic woman, Boss, has scales that measure overweight. She gives something extra in sleep, sex andContinue reading “RKS Literature: Zorba the Greek on Greek and Slavic Women!”
RKS Literature: Zorba the Greek and Russia
“Everything’s in abundance out there near the Caucasus. Boss; everything’s loose, in bulk. You just choose and take. And not just cantaloupes or watermelons like you may think, but also fish, butter-and women. You’re in the area, you see a watermelon, you take it; you see a woman, you take her. Not like here inContinue reading “RKS Literature: Zorba the Greek and Russia”
RKS Literature: Madame Hortense’s Mini Cretan Hotel (Zorba the Greek)
“Madame Hortense’s miniature hotel consisted of a row of age-old bathing cabins glued together one behind the other. The first cabin was a store; it sold candy, cigarettes, Arabian peanuts, lamp wicks, kindergarten alphabet books and frankincense. Four other cabins in succession were the sleeping quarters. Behind them, in the courtyard, were the kitchen, laundry,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Madame Hortense’s Mini Cretan Hotel (Zorba the Greek)”
RKS Literature: Kafka on Bureaucracy: “The Castle” (“Das Schloss”)
“He ought long ago to have had, not a uniform, for there aren’t many in the Castle, but a suit provided by the department, and he has been promised one, but in things of that kind the Castle moves slowly, and the worst of it is that one never knows what this slowness means; itContinue reading “RKS Literature: Kafka on Bureaucracy: “The Castle” (“Das Schloss”)”
RKS Literature: School as Prison (Thomas Mann)
“I am only able to live when my mind and my fancy are completely free; and this it is that memory of my years in prison actually less hateful to me than those of the ostensibly more honourable bond of slavery and fear which chafed my sensitive boyish soul when I was forced to attendContinue reading “RKS Literature: School as Prison (Thomas Mann)”
RKS Literature: Making a Proper Toilette (Thomas Mann)
“The preparation, the lavish equipment for what should have been the serious business of life used up all his energy. How much mental effort had been expended simply in making the proper toilette. How much time and attention went to his supplies of cigarettes, soaps, and perfumes; how much occasion for making up his mindContinue reading “RKS Literature: Making a Proper Toilette (Thomas Mann)”
RKS Literature: Dog on the Hunt (Thomas Mann)
“The racking out, the driving up, the chasing-these are ends in themselves to the sporting spirit, and are plainly so to him, as anybody would see who watched him at his brilliant performance. How beautiful he becomes, how consummate, how ideal. Like a clumsy peasant lad, who would look perfect and statuesque as a huntsmanContinue reading “RKS Literature: Dog on the Hunt (Thomas Mann)”
RKS Literature: The Tribal Laws of Dogs; (Thomas Mann)
“ My old familiar Bashan was a stranger to me, I found it impossible to enter his feelings or behaviour or understand the tribal laws that governed them. Certainly, the meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters: itContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Tribal Laws of Dogs; (Thomas Mann)”
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