“…it is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent, or even hostile to the French. And this is made possible by the one person in Paris whom the legend seems least not to affect, who is not living it all, that is, the Parisian himself. Him with his impenetrable politesse, andContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Splendid Parisian Air (James Baldwin)”
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RKS Literature: A Furious and Bewildered Rage in America (James Baldwin)
“I am not one of the people who believe that oppression imbues a people with wisdom or insight or sweet charity: though the survival of the Negro in this country would simply not have been possible if this bitterness had been all that he felt. In America life seems to move faster than anywhere elseContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Furious and Bewildered Rage in America (James Baldwin)”
RKS Literature: The Negro and the Jew in The United States (James Baldwin)
“It seems unlikely within this complicated structure any real and systematic cooperation can be achieved between Negroes and Jews. (This in terms of the over-all social problem and is not meant to imply that individual friendships are impossible or that they are valueless when they occur) The structure of the American commonwealth has trapped bothContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Negro and the Jew in The United States (James Baldwin)”
RKS Literature: The Guillotine Knitter (Charles Dickens)
“There were many women at the time, upon whom the time laid a dreadfully disfiguring hand; but there was not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless woman, now taking her way along the streets. Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kindContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Guillotine Knitter (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Why the Aristocrats Heads Rolled in the French Revolution (Charles Dickens)
“We were so robbed by the man that stands there, as all we common dogs are by those Superior beings-taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for ourContinue reading “RKS Literature: Why the Aristocrats Heads Rolled in the French Revolution (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: No Place for a Young Man in a London Bank! (Dickens)
“Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards at Telleson’s the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they took a young man into Telleson’s London house, they hid him somewhere until he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Telleson flavour and blueContinue reading “RKS Literature: No Place for a Young Man in a London Bank! (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: The Responsible Jury (Dickens)
“That, for these reasons, the jury being a loyal jury (as he knew they were), and being a responsible jury (as they knew they were), must positively find the prisoner Guilty, and make an end of him, whether they liked it or not. That, they could never lay their heads upon their pillows; that theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Responsible Jury (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: France in 1775 (Dickens)
“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)”
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”
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