“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”
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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)”
RKS Literature: Love or Madness? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“He was not so much in love with Gloria as mad for her. Unless he could have her near to him again, kiss her, hold her close and acquiescent, he wanted nothing more from life. By her three minutes of utter unwavering indifference the girl had lifter herself from a high but somewhat casual positionContinue reading “RKS Literature: Love or Madness? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: The Growth of Intimacy (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third-before long the best lines cancel out- and the secret is exposed at last; the planesContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Growth of Intimacy (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS Literature: That Faintly Odorous Atmosphere of the Cave and the Nursery (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“Almost impersonally he was convinced that no woman he had ever met compared in any way with Gloria. She was deeply herself; she was immeasurably sincere-of these things he was certain. Besides her the two dozen schoolgirls and debutantes, young married woman and waifs and strays whom he had known were so many females, inContinue reading “RKS Literature: That Faintly Odorous Atmosphere of the Cave and the Nursery (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
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