“Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness at the very instant when prudence and caution are most essential. It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of willpower attacked a man like a disease, developed gradually and reached its highestContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A Criminal’s Failure of Will and Reasoning (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
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RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Too Many Pots of Vodka and High-Flown Speeches (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here and he had most likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern. This habit develops into a necessity in some drunkards, and especially in those who are looked after sharply and kept inContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Too Many Pots of Vodka and High-Flown Speeches (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Should He Murder the Old Hag? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
‘I want to attempt a thing like that and I am frightened by these trifles’, he thought with an odd smile. ’Hm…yes. all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking aContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Should He Murder the Old Hag? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Money as a Curse (Deepti Kapoor)
“Money’s a fucking curse, he said. It cuts out all the hard work. Before you had to be kind or funny or fun. Interesting or intelligent. You had to take the time to know people. You had solidarity with them. Then you’re rich. It annihilates everything. Everyone is nice to you. Everyone wants you there.Continue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Money as a Curse (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Poverty, Ambition and the Upward Climb in India (Deepti Kapoor)
“The only thing he is guilty of is ambition. Of rising above his station. Did my father cut corners on the way? Yes. This is India. The game is rigged, the rules are stacked, you people make the rules in the first place. You already have everything, and you don’t want to share. So sometimesContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Poverty, Ambition and the Upward Climb in India (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The Vulgar New India (Deepti Kapoor)
“Sunny fit into the long line of boys she’d flirted with at school, slept with in college, all the boys she’d parked on the ridge, whose daddies were wealthy businessmen, who represented the new vulgar India her mother railed against. He fit into that line, and he transcended it. While those boys had appealed toContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: The Vulgar New India (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Get Out of Our Hair British Colonialism (Deepti Kapoor)
“I was there in England, I saw it, this ‘Cool Brittania.’ Oasis. Tony Blair. God Save the Bloody Queen. But you scratch the surface, it’s crumbling, its dying, there’s no future on that miserable island. The same in America. You think India is poor? Go travel around America. I couldn’t believe it. Meanwhile some backpackerContinue reading “RKS THE LITERATURE OF INDIA: Get Out of Our Hair British Colonialism (Deepti Kapoor)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: There Are No New Ideas (Audre Lorde)
“For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt-of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on a Sunday morning at 7 a.m., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning our dead-while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of beingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: There Are No New Ideas (Audre Lorde)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Militancy Does Not Mean Guns Blazing at High Noon (Audre Lorde)
“We who are Black are at an extraordinary point of choice within our lives. To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us mustContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Militancy Does Not Mean Guns Blazing at High Noon (Audre Lorde)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Tokensim the Neutralizer of Creativity (Audre Lorde)
“And in the university that is no easy task, for each one of you by virtue of you being here will be deluged by opportunities to misname yourselves. To forget who you are, to forget where your real interests lie. Make no mistake you will be courted; and nothing neutralizes creativity quicker than tokensim. ThatContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Tokensim the Neutralizer of Creativity (Audre Lorde)”
