“No one with a brain in his head can stand here in the centre of the intellectual world and be indifferent to the violent upheavals going on before his eyes. We young men are the ones who hold today’s literary power in our hands, so we have to take the initiative to make every word,Continue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Young Japanese Men with Literary Power in their Hands (Sōseki Natsume)”
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RKS Japanese Literature: Empty Headed Japanese University Students (Sōseki Natsume)
“The students who flocked to Berlin to hear Hegel’s lectures”-this fellow was obviously a great admirer of Hegel-“were not driven by ambition. They did not intend to exploit the lectures to qualify themselves for making a living. No, they came because their hearts were pure. They knew only that a philosopher called Hegel transmitted fromContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Empty Headed Japanese University Students (Sōseki Natsume)”
RKS Literature: The Three Evils of the Tramp’s Life: HUNGER (George Orwell)
“The first is hunger which is the almost general fate of tramps. The casual ward gives them a ration which is probably not even meant to be sufficient, and anything beyond this must be got by begging-that is, by breaking the law. The result is that nearly every tramp is rotted by malnutrition; for proofContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Three Evils of the Tramp’s Life: HUNGER (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: What are Dreams? (Thomas Nasche)
“A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy; which the day hath left undigested; or an after feast made of the fragments of an idle imagination. A dream is nothing but an echo of our conceits in the day. In them all states, all sexes, all places are confoundedContinue reading “RKS Literature: What are Dreams? (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Literature: The Devil: Master of Disguise! (Thomas Nasche)
“It will be demanded why in likeness of one’s father or mother, or kinsfolks, he often presents himself unto us. No other reason can be given of it but this, that in those shapes which he supposeth most familiar unto us, and that we are inclined to with a natural kind of love, we willContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Devil: Master of Disguise! (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Literature: The Tramp Monster and Sinister Chinaman (George Orwell)
“In childhood we have been taught that tramps are blackguards, and consequently there exists in our minds a sort of ideal or typical tramp-a repulsive, rather dangerous creature, who would die rather than wash, and wants nothing but to beg, drink and rob hen-houses. This tramp-monster is no truer to life than the sinister ChinamanContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Tramp Monster and Sinister Chinaman (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: The Devil’s Reign is Nighttime (Thomas Nasche)
“It is not to be gainsaid but the devil can transform himself into an angel of light, appear in the day as well as in the night, but not in this subtle world of Christianity so usual as before. If he do it, it is when men’s minds are extraordinarily thrown down with discontent, orContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Devil’s Reign is Nighttime (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS Literature: Revenge of the Tramps for Their “Free” Tea at the Evangelical Church (George Orwell)
“It was a queer rather disgusting scene. Below were the handful of simple, well-meaning people, trying hard to worship; and above were the hundred men whom they had fed deliberately making worship impossible. A ring of dirty, hairy faces grinned down from the gallery, openly jeering. What could a few women and old men doContinue reading “RKS Literature: Revenge of the Tramps for Their “Free” Tea at the Evangelical Church (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: The Night is the Devil’s Black Book (Thomas Nasche)
“As touching the terrors of the night, they are as many as our sins. The night is the Devil’s Black Book, wherein he recordeth all our transgressions. Even as, when a condemned man is put into a dark dungeon, secluded from all comfort of light or company, he doth nothing but despairfully call to hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Night is the Devil’s Black Book (Thomas Nasche)”
RKS British Literature: A Comparison of Opium and Wine (Part Three) (Thomas De Quincey)
“Thus, for instance, opium, like wine, gives an expansion to the heart and the benevolent affections; but then with this remarkable difference, that in the sudden development of kind heartedness which accompanies inebriation, there is always more or less of a maudlin character which exposes it to the contempt of the bystander. Men shake theirContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Comparison of Opium and Wine (Part Three) (Thomas De Quincey)”
