“The whole party moved swiftly through the narrow path, toward the north, leaving the healing waters to mingle unheeded with the adjacent brooks and the bodies of the dead to fester on the neighbouring mount, without the rites of sepulture; a fate but too common to the warriors of the woods to excite either commiserationContinue reading “RKS Literature: Leaving Dead Bodies in the Woods as a Matter of Course (James Fenimore Cooper)”
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RKS Literature: Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio)
“So to begin, there’s a village not far from here called Varlungo, as every one of you knows or will have heard from other people. I had once a valiant priest, a fine figure of a man who served the ladies well. He was not much of a reader, but every Sunday he would spoutContinue reading “RKS Literature: Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio)”
RKS Literature: The Good Book and the Reality in the Colonial Woods (James Fenimore Cooper)
“I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. If any suchContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Good Book and the Reality in the Colonial Woods (James Fenimore Cooper)”
RKS Literature: Riccardo da Chinzica loses his wife (Giovanni Boccaccio)
“There was once a judge in Pisa with more brains than muscle called Messer Riccardo da Chinzica, who may have thought that what worked well with his studies would satisfy a wife too. Being very rich, he was able to devote considerable time and effort to searching for a good-looking young lady to marry, whereasContinue reading “RKS Literature: Riccardo da Chinzica loses his wife (Giovanni Boccaccio)”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Choose Your Friends (Baltasar Graciáno)
Choose Your Friends ….they should become so after being examined by discretion, tested by fortune and certified not simply by your will but your understanding. Although the most important thing in life, it’s usually the one over which least care is taken: some are forced upon us, most are the result of pure chance.Continue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Choose Your Friends (Baltasar Graciáno)”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Know How to Deflect Trouble to Someone Else (Baltasar Graciáno)
Know How to Deflect Trouble to Someone Else Having a shield against ill will is a great trick of rulers. To have someone else who can be criticized for mistakes and chastised by gossipmongers is a sign of superior skill, not lack of competence as malice thinks. Have a fall guy, therefore, someone who, atContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Know How to Deflect Trouble to Someone Else (Baltasar Graciáno)”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Don’t Expose Your Sore Finger (Baltasar Graciáno)
Don’t Expose Your Sore Finger ….or everything will knock against it. Don’t complain about your sore points, for malice always attacks where our weaknesses hurt the most. Getting annoyed will only serve to spur on someone else’s enjoyment. The ill intentioned are always searching for a pretext to get your back up. Their dart likeContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Don’t Expose Your Sore Finger (Baltasar Graciáno)”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Live According to the Common Practice (Baltasar Gracián)
Live According to the Common Practice You shouldn’t reason and debate in an old-fashioned way and your taste should be up-to-the-minute. Telling the truth and keeping your word are unknown today and seem like things from the past. Good men, although always loved, seem relics of better times, and so even if there happen toContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Live According to the Common Practice (Baltasar Gracián)”
RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Get Used to the Bad Temperaments of Those You Deal With (Baltasar Gracián)
Get Used to the Bad Temperaments of Those You Deal With ..like getting used to ugly faces. This is advisable in situations of dependency. There are horrible people you can neither live with nor live without. It’s a necessary skill, therefore to get used to them, as to ugliness, so you’re not surprised each timeContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to Use Your Enemies: Get Used to the Bad Temperaments of Those You Deal With (Baltasar Gracián)”
RKS Literature: What’s in a Name? (James Fenimore Cooper)
“I’m an admirer of names, though the Christian fashions fall far below savage customs in this particular. The biggest coward I ever knew as called Lyon; and his wife, Patience, would scold you out of hearing in less time than a hunted deer would run a rod. With an Indian tis’ a matter of conscience;Continue reading “RKS Literature: What’s in a Name? (James Fenimore Cooper)”
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