“And you whose immortal soul opened a money changing shop: you sit on the threshold, plunge your hand into the sack, give alms to the poor, lend to God. You keep a ledger and write: I gave so many florins for charity so and so on such and such a day, and at such anContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Charity and the Day of Reckoning at the Gates of Heaven”
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RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Living our Own Murder Mystery
“The sad fact is that there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, as the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter one murder in our lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murderContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Living our Own Murder Mystery”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: House Love
“Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of the rooms can also just as well be the room for laughing or the room for listeningContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: House Love”
RKS Literature: German Big Business and National Socialism
“The meeting of 20February1933 and its aftermath are the most notorious instances of the willingness of German big business to assist Hitler in establishing his dictatorial regime. The evidence cannot be dodged. Nothing suggests that the leaders of German big business were filled with ideological fervor for National Socialism, before or after February 1933. NorContinue reading “RKS Literature: German Big Business and National Socialism”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: What Did the French Revolution Accomplish?
“If we disregard various incidental developments which briefly modified its aspect at different periods and in different lands, and study it as it was essentially, we find that the chief permanent achievement of the French Revolution was the suppression of those political institutions, commonly described as feudal, which for many centuries had held unquestioned swayContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: What Did the French Revolution Accomplish?”
RKS Literature: “The Zeal of the French Revolution”
“No previous political upheaval however violent, had aroused such passionate enthusiasm for the ideal the French Revolution set before it was not merely a change in the French social system but nothing short of a regeneration of the whole human race. It created an atmosphere of missionary fervor and indeed assumed all the aspects ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: “The Zeal of the French Revolution””
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: The Safety of Marriage
“I do not know if the pimp’s album may not have been another link in the daisy-chain; but soon after, for my own safety, I decided to marry. It occurred to me that regular hours, home cooked meals, all the conventions of marriage, the prophylactic routine of its bedroom activities and, who knows, the eventualContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: The Safety of Marriage”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Messing with a Psychiatrist
“I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists: cunningly leading them on: never letting them see you know all the tricks of the trade: inventing for them elaborate dreams, pure classics in style (which make them the dream-extortionists, dream and wake up shrieking); teasing them with fake “primal scenes”;Continue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Messing with a Psychiatrist”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Thoughts of an 1856 Druggist in Toronto
“As my father has often said, the sick are never in short supply, but then there is only so much physick they can take before their health is recovered, and the privations and the growth of the city were both grossly overestimated. It does ill to have hopes for others’ misfortunes, but druggists must standContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: Thoughts of an 1856 Druggist in Toronto”
RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: The Selling Price of Art
“The selling price has nothing whatsoever to do with the work of art being good or not. It has to do with what people are willing to pay for it at any given time. The auction house sets much of the value when they put an estimate on the price. They set the estimates basedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Passage of the Day: The Selling Price of Art”
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