Sure enough my doorbell rings, and there is a spluttering woman standing there. “Did you hear my radio, did it disturb you?” she shrieks at me. “Not at all,” I say, which seems to calm her. “It is those Albanians below, they always cause trouble and blame it on me. They are not used toContinue reading “RKS Travel (Travels in Greece): Albanians as the Joads of Greece (Patricia Storace)”
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RKS Travel (Travels in Greece): Dining at Mustache’s Where a Turk is Baptized in Yogurt (Patricia Storace)
The businessmen, whose father is from Smyrna, the port in Turkey that was once so associated with its Greek population that the Turks called it “infidel Smyrna”, is telling stories about how his father went to school with Onassis, who was also from Smyrna. A round of whispered teasing follows the mention of Smyrna. “He’sContinue reading “RKS Travel (Travels in Greece): Dining at Mustache’s Where a Turk is Baptized in Yogurt (Patricia Storace)”
RKS POLISH Literature: A Watchful Soul Hearing the Call of Suffering (Władysław Reymont)
A watchful soul would hear the calling of suffering themselves without being berated from the pulpit! They know full well what’s happening with the poor folk, m’dear, for they feed on that human poverty and grow fat on it…It’s harvest time already for the miller. Though reaping’s still far off in the field. People areContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: A Watchful Soul Hearing the Call of Suffering (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS Travel (Travels in Greece): Dining at Mustache’s in the Plaka (Patricia Storace)
When I arrive at the Mustache’s restaurant in Plaka, on a street with many of the handsome neoclassical buildings that were the architecture of preference for the new Greek state in the 1830’s after its Bavarian king arrived bringing his Munich classicism with him, a group of friends and strangers is sitting inside, drinking coldContinue reading “RKS Travel (Travels in Greece): Dining at Mustache’s in the Plaka (Patricia Storace)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Misery and Heartache Everywhere in the Village (Władysław Reymont)
The farmers have trouble aplenty… One is agitating what’s best to stuff his guts with, and another, who he can lend to at the highest percentage, but none of them trouble about the poor. Even were they to die at their fences….My God, they all sit in the same village, across a baulk, and itContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Misery and Heartache Everywhere in the Village (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS New Zealand Literature: If Only Isabel Had Not Gone to Paris…. (Katherine Mansfield)
But the imbecile thing, the absolutely extraordinary thing was that he hadn’t the slightest idea that Isabel wasn’t as happy as he. God, what blindness! He hadn’t the remotest notion in those days that she really hated that inconvenient little house, that she thought the fat nanny was ruining the babies, that she was desperatelyContinue reading “RKS New Zealand Literature: If Only Isabel Had Not Gone to Paris…. (Katherine Mansfield)”
RKS American Literature: The Professional Injustice of Being an Optician (Sinclair Lewis)
Orlo Vay, the Chippewa Avenue Optician, Smart-Art Harlequin Tinted-Tortus Frames Our Speciality, was a public figure, as public as a cemetery. He was resentful that his profession, like that of an undertaker, a professor of art, or a Mormon missionary, was not appreciated for its patience and technical skills, as are the callings of wholesaleContinue reading “RKS American Literature: The Professional Injustice of Being an Optician (Sinclair Lewis)”
RKS American Literature: Should Dr. Allan Cedar Murder His Fat and Vicious Wife Bertha (Sinclair Lewis)
It occurred to Allan to murder her, but not to refuse to go along. Many American males confuse their wives and the policeman on the beat. “Virga Vay & Allan Cedar”, Sinclair Lewis, 1945
RKS AMERICAN Literature: Ben Not Enjoying His Overnighter at the Buckley’s (Ring Lardner)
Well their guest room was terribly cold: it took hours to fill the bathtub; there was no reading lamp by the bed; three reporters called to interview Ben, two of them kittenish young girls; the breakfasts were just fruit and cereal and toast; coffee was not served at luncheon; the faucets in the wash-basin wereContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN Literature: Ben Not Enjoying His Overnighter at the Buckley’s (Ring Lardner)”
RKS AMERICAN Literature: A Law Against Invitations That Go Beyond Dinner and Bridge! (Ring Lardner)
He absolutely abhors visiting and thinks there ought to be a law against invitations that go beyond dinner and bridge. He doesn’t mind hotels where there is decent light for reading in bed and one for shaving, and where you can order meals, with coffee, anytime you want them. But I really believe he wouldContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN Literature: A Law Against Invitations That Go Beyond Dinner and Bridge! (Ring Lardner)”
