“At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare but the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators and behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe-at any rate for short periods- that running, jumping and kickingContinue reading “RKS Literature: International Sports Mimics Warfare (George Orwell)”
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RKS Literature: International Sports and an Orgy of Hatred (George Orwell)
“I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn’t know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games,Continue reading “RKS Literature: International Sports and an Orgy of Hatred (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: Freedom Compared to the Poor Female Cousin in Certain Middle-Class Families (Albert Camus)
“Among us, for instance, in Western Europe, freedom is officially approved. But such freedom makes me think of the poor female cousin in certain middle-class families. She has become a widow, she has lost her natural protector. So she has been taken in, given a room in the top floor, and is welcome in theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Freedom Compared to the Poor Female Cousin in Certain Middle-Class Families (Albert Camus)”
RKS Literature: The Death of a Lying and Comfort Loving Europe (Albert Camus)
“Let us rejoice, indeed, at having witnessed the death of a lying and comfortable Europe and being faced by cruel truths. Let us rejoice as men because a prolonged hoax has collapsed and we see clearly what threatens us.” Albert Camus, “Create Dangerously”, 1957.
RKS Literature: The Justification of a Writer (Albert Camus)
“We must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is any justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so. But we must do so for all those that are suffering at the moment, whatever may be the glories,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Justification of a Writer (Albert Camus)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Cheap eats”
Cheap eats Bill and Mona went to McDonalds for the all-American meal Disguised hamburger with cereal Hamburgers and shakes It weren’t but minutes later until Bill was seized with the quakes And Mona began to groana Apparently the deal on Big Meal Had their stomachs screaming for an appeal for the inhuman squeal The painContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Cheap eats””
RKS Literature: What Can Art Speak of? (Albert Camus)
“Of what could art speak, indeed? If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be meaningless recreation. If it blindly rejects that society, if the artist makes up his mind to take refuge in his dream, art will express nothing but a negation. In this way we shall haveContinue reading “RKS Literature: What Can Art Speak of? (Albert Camus)”
RKS Literature: The Wretched Condition of the Masses (Albert Camus)
“The questioning of art by the artist has many reasons, and only the loftiest need be considered. Amongst the best explanations is the feeling the contemporary artist has of lying or of indulging in useless words if he pays no attention to history’s woes. What characterizes our time, indeed, is the way masses and theirContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Wretched Condition of the Masses (Albert Camus)”
RKS Literature: On the Abyss: Murder and Suicide (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
“They say that people standing on a height are drawn downwards, as it were, on their own accord, to the abyss. I think that a lot of suicides and murders have been committed merely because the revolver was already in hand. There’s an abyss here as well, there’s a forty-five-degree slope down which you can’tContinue reading “RKS Literature: On the Abyss: Murder and Suicide (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)”
RKS Literature: Parisian Backstabbers: “The Atheist’s Mass” (Honoré de Balzac)
“In Paris, when certain people see you ready to put your foot in the stirrup, some of them pull you back by the coattail, others loosen the buckle of the saddle-girth so that you’ll fall and break your head; this one takes the shoes of your horse, that one steals your whip. The least treacherousContinue reading “RKS Literature: Parisian Backstabbers: “The Atheist’s Mass” (Honoré de Balzac)”
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