“The place reeked of vice and corruption and the dregs of Parisian society in all its rottenness gathered there: cheats, common and cheap hacks rubbed shoulders with under-age dandies, old roués and rogues, sleazy underworld types once notorious for things best forgotten mingled with other small-time crooks and speculators, dabblers in dubious ventures, frauds, pimpsContinue reading “RKS Literature: Vice and Corruption Meet the Dregs of Parisian Society (Guy de Maupassant)”
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RKS Literature: Predatory Women and Booze Sodden Men Looking for a Fight (Guy de Maupassant)
“A noisy, rambunctious crowd filled the floating restaurant. The wooden tables, sticky and awash with streams of spilt drink, were covered with half empty glasses and surrounded by half-tipsy customers. The crowds sang and shouted and brawled. Red faced, belligerent men, their hats tipped at the backs of their heads and their eyes glassy withContinue reading “RKS Literature: Predatory Women and Booze Sodden Men Looking for a Fight (Guy de Maupassant)”
RKS Literature: Vulgarity and Idiocy (Guy de Maupassant)
“On the land adjoining La Grenouillère strollers were sauntering under gigantic trees which helped make this part of the island one of the most delightful parks imaginable. Busty women with peroxided hair and nipped-in waists could be seen made up to the nines with blood red lips and black-kohled eyes. Tightly laced into their garishContinue reading “RKS Literature: Vulgarity and Idiocy (Guy de Maupassant)”
RKS Literature: Yankee Whalers as Sea Peasants (Herman Melville)
“To be sure, from the small number of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when they do occur there is too apt to be sort of a shyness between them; for your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself.Continue reading “RKS Literature: Yankee Whalers as Sea Peasants (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Spaghetti All Over Her Snout: BAD DOG! (Kerk Murray)
“In that moment of our absence, we discovered that our thirteen-pound senior dog was an acrobat. Chelsea was standing on the table devouring our dinner, unabashed. She looked at us proudly with spaghetti on her nose and a loaf of bread in her mouth. I glanced at my mom, who was furious as she stoodContinue reading “RKS Literature: Spaghetti All Over Her Snout: BAD DOG! (Kerk Murray)”
RKS Literature: How a Dog Can Capture Your Heart Making You Realize What’s Important About Life (Kerk Murray)
“It only took a few weeks for Chelsea to find her way into my heart- and for me to find my way into hers. With each passing day, she was willing to become more vulnerable as I continued to meet her where she was. Trust was built as I patiently learned about her boundaries andContinue reading “RKS Literature: How a Dog Can Capture Your Heart Making You Realize What’s Important About Life (Kerk Murray)”
RKS Literature: An Author Responds to Reviews of His Work (Henry James)
“ I don’t read things in the newspapers unless they’re thrust upon me as that one was-it’s always one’s best friend who does it. But I used to read them sometimes-ten years ago. I dare say they were in general rather stupider then; at any rate it always struck me they missed my little pointContinue reading “RKS Literature: An Author Responds to Reviews of His Work (Henry James)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: AM I LIVING NATALIE IMBRUGLIA’S SONG “TORN”?
AM I LIVING NATALIE IMBRUGLIA’S SONG “TORN”? Some of the lyrics in Natalie Imbruglia’s 1977 hit “Torn” read, “I’m cold, ashamed lying naked on the floor…”. I endured my first grooming yesterday. Fay was telling me I was going to the doggie spa. Alright I thought, cucumber slices on my eyes, a manicure and someContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: AM I LIVING NATALIE IMBRUGLIA’S SONG “TORN”?”
RKS Literature: Treating Life as a Practical Joke (Herman Melville)
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own. However, nothing dispirits, nothing seems worthContinue reading “RKS Literature: Treating Life as a Practical Joke (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Emotions of the Whale Pursuit (Herman Melville)
“Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle; not the dead man’s ghost encountering the first phantom in the other world;-neither of these can feel stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling into the charmed,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Emotions of the Whale Pursuit (Herman Melville)”
