“France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down the hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cutContinue reading “RKS Literature: France in 1775 (Dickens)”
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RKS Literature: Every Human Being a Profound Secret (Dickens)
“A wonderful fact to reflect on, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret: that every room in every one of them encloses itsContinue reading “RKS Literature: Every Human Being a Profound Secret (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: L.A. Gringo Blames the Mexicans
“It was the Mexicans who’d done this. Illegals. Goons with their hats turned backwards on their heads. Sneaking across the border, ruining the schools, gutting property values and freeloading on welfare, and if that wasn’t enough, now they were burning everybody else too. They were like the barbarians outside the gates of Rome, only theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: L.A. Gringo Blames the Mexicans”
RKS Literature: No Work For the Undocumented Latino in Los Angeles
“Later Cándido stood on streetcorner with two hundred other men while she shrank by his side. The talk was grim. There was a recession. There was no work. Too many had come up from the South, and if there was work for them all six years ago, now there were twenty men for every jobContinue reading “RKS Literature: No Work For the Undocumented Latino in Los Angeles”
RKS Literature: Understanding Caravans and the Sense of Entitlement
“The right to work, to have job, earn your daily bread and a roof over your head and a roof over your head. He was a criminal for daring to want it, daring to risk everything for the basic human necessities, and now even those were to be denied him. It stank. It did. TheseContinue reading “RKS Literature: Understanding Caravans and the Sense of Entitlement”
RKS Literature: Madame Bovary Thinks Her Husband Charles is Clumsy and Vulgar (Flaubert)
“Her tenderness, in fact, grew daily as her repulsion toward her husband increased. The more she yielded to one, the more she loathed the other. Never did Charles seem so unattractive, slow witted, clumsy and vulgar as she met him after her rendez-vous with Rudolphe. Then while playing the part of a virtuous wife, sheContinue reading “RKS Literature: Madame Bovary Thinks Her Husband Charles is Clumsy and Vulgar (Flaubert)”
RKS Literature: The Unattainable Woman (Gustave Flaubert)
“She seemed so virtuous and inaccessible to him that he lost all hope, even the faintest. But, by thus renouncing her, he made her ascend to extraordinary heights. She transcended, in his eyes, those sensuous attributes which were forever out of his reach; and in his heart she rose forever, soaring away from him likeContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Unattainable Woman (Gustave Flaubert)”
RKS Literature: Initial Delusions of Emma Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
“All the while, however, she was waiting in her heart for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this act of fortune would be, what wind would bring it, towardContinue reading “RKS Literature: Initial Delusions of Emma Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)”
RKS Literature: Priests Wallowing in Squalid Ignorance (Gustave Flaubert)
“I believe in the Supreme Being, in a Creator whatever he may be. I care little who has placed us here below to fulfill our duties as citizens and parents; but I don’t need to go to a church to kiss silver plates and fatten, out of my pocket, a lot of good-for-nothings who liveContinue reading “RKS Literature: Priests Wallowing in Squalid Ignorance (Gustave Flaubert)”
RKS Literature: Renewed Life with The First High-Ball of the Day (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“Only for a brief moment every day in the warmth and renewed life of a first high-ball did his mind turn to those opalescent dreams of future pleasure-the mutual heritage of the happy and the damned. But this was only for a little while. As he grew drunker the dreams faded and he became aContinue reading “RKS Literature: Renewed Life with The First High-Ball of the Day (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
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