“Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye, as he rules out a ciphering book, with a pocket handkerchief. I have plenty to do. I don’t watch his eye in idleness but because I am morbidly attracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, and whether itContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Cruel Mr. Creakle Looks for His Next Victim (Charles Dickens)”
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RKS Literature: The Solution to America’s Drug Problem (William S. Burroughs)
“If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk problem we start with the bottom of the pyramid: Addict in the Street and stop tilting quixotically for the “higher-ups” so called. All of whom areContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Solution to America’s Drug Problem (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: A Less Than Efficient Court System (William S. Burroughs)
“The County Clerk has his office in a huge red brick building known as the Old Court House. Civil cases are, in fact tried there, the proceeding inexorably dragging out until the contestants die or abandon litigation. This is due to the vast number of records pertaining to absolutely everything, all filed in the wrongContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Less Than Efficient Court System (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: Chez Robert Declines after Ketchup Riot (William S. Burroughs)
“Imperceptibly the quality of the food declines until he is serving literal garbage, the clients being intimidated by the reputation of Chez Robert to protest. SAMPLE MENU The Clear Camel Piss Soup with boiled Earth Worms The Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Ray basted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with Nettles The After-Birth SuprêmeContinue reading “RKS Literature: Chez Robert Declines after Ketchup Riot (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: Ketchup on Haute Cuisine Causes a Riot! (William S. Burroughs)
“(Alternative: A.J. whips out a bottle of ketchup and douses the haute cuisine.) Thirty gourmets stop chewing at once. You could have heard a soufflé drop. As for Robert, he lets out a bellow of rage like a wounded elephant, runs to the kitchen and arms himself with a meat cleaver….The sommelier snarls hideously, hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: Ketchup on Haute Cuisine Causes a Riot! (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: Americans Dying of Shame (William S. Burroughs)
“A.J.’s cover story? An international playboy and harmless practical joker. It was A.J. who put the piranha fish in Lady Sutton Smith’s swimming pool and dosed the punch with a mixture of yagé, hashish and yohimbine during a Fourth of July reception at the U.S. Embassy, precipitating an orgy. Ten prominent citizens-American, of course-subsequently diedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Americans Dying of Shame (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: The Puritanical and Opinionated Cannabis Smoker (William S. Burroughs)
“He was a ritual tea smoker and very puritanical about junk the way some teaheads are. He claimed tea put him in touch with supra blue gravitational fields. He had ideas on every subject: what kind of underwear was healthy, when to drink water and how to wipe your ass. He had a shiny redContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Puritanical and Opinionated Cannabis Smoker (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: Senior Geezers and Junkies (William S. Burroughs)
“I made the round with him once for kicks. You know how old people lose all shame about eating, and it makes you puke to watch them? Old junkies are the same about junk. They gibber and squeal at the sight of it. The spit hangs off their chin, and their stomach rumbles and allContinue reading “RKS Literature: Senior Geezers and Junkies (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: The Russian Love for Vodka Leaves No Room For Port! (Bulgakov)
“Styopa Likodeyev no longer has to talk on the phone at the Variety. After being discharged from the clinic where he spent eight days, Styopa was transferred to Rostov, where he was appointed manager of a large speciality foods store. Rumor has it that he has sworn off port completely and drinks only vodka steepedContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Russian Love for Vodka Leaves No Room For Port! (Bulgakov)”
RKS Literature: The Devil’s Angel Does Not Like Conversing with a Woman in Love! (Bulgakov)
“No scenes, no scenes.” retorted Azazello with a grimace. “You should put yourself in my position. Smacking some bureaucrat in the puss, booting out some old geezer, shooting someone, or anything along those lines, that’s my real speciality, but talking with a woman in love-no thanks.” Mikhail Bulgakov, “The Master and Margarita”, 1966.
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