“Wine has been called the ‘greatest of medicines’, but in fact all sickness springs from it. It is claimed you forget your sorrows in drink, but from what I can see, men in their cups will in fact weep to recall their past unhappiness. As for the next world-having lost the wisdom you were bornContinue reading “RKS Literature: Wine the Path to Hell (Yoshida Kenkō)”
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RKS Literature: The Evil Side of Sake (Yoshida Kenkō)
“I cannot understand why people will seize any occasion to immediately bring out the sake, delighting in forcing someone else to drink. The other will frown and grimace in painful protest, attempt to throw it away when no one’s looking or do his best to escape, but this man will seize him, pin him downContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Evil Side of Sake (Yoshida Kenkō)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: ONE SMALL STEP FOR RORY A HUGE LEAP FOR MANKIND: HEALING POST TRAUMATIC WESTIE STRESS DISORDER (PTWSD)
ONE SMALL STEP FOR RORY A HUGE LEAP FOR MANKIND: HEALING POST TRAUMATIC WESTIE STRESS DISORDER (PTWSD) I might have revised the title of this chapter to read “ONE SMALL STEP FOR MANKIND A HUGE LEAP FOR RORY”. You may recall in an early chapter I told you readers about being chased around the gardenContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: ONE SMALL STEP FOR RORY A HUGE LEAP FOR MANKIND: HEALING POST TRAUMATIC WESTIE STRESS DISORDER (PTWSD)”
RKS Literature: A Friend of Marlon Brando Comments on His Choice of Friends (Truman Capote)
“….the kind of people he didn’t like-and the kind he did, both-stemmed from his insecurities. His inferiority feelings. Very few of his friends were his equals- anybody he’d have to compete with if you know what I mean. Mostly they were strays, idolizers, characters who were dependent on him one way or another. The sameContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Friend of Marlon Brando Comments on His Choice of Friends (Truman Capote)”
RKS Literature: The Flamboyant Pleasure of a Country Bumpkin (Yoshida Kenkō)
“The man of quality never appears entranced by anything; he savours things with a casual air. Country bumpkins, however, take flamboyant pleasure in everything. They will wiggle their way in through the crowd and stand there aimlessly gaping up at the blossoms, sit under the trees drinking sake and indulging in linked verse making togetherContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Flamboyant Pleasure of a Country Bumpkin (Yoshida Kenkō)”
RKS Literature: Truman Capote Defines a “Movie Star” (Truman Capote)
“Defined practically, a movie star is any performer who can account for a box office profit regardless of the quality of the enterprise in which he appears; the breed is so scarce that there are fewer than ten actors today who qualify for the title. Brando is one of them; as a box office draw,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Truman Capote Defines a “Movie Star” (Truman Capote)”
RKS Literature: Marlon Brando on Analysis (Truman Capote)
“Have you ever been analyzed. I was afraid of it at first. Afraid it might destroy the impulses that make me creative, an artist. A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they’re so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The moreContinue reading “RKS Literature: Marlon Brando on Analysis (Truman Capote)”
RKS Literature: What Types of People Should Not Be Your Friends? (Yoshida Kenkō)
“There are seven types of people one should not have as a friend. The first is an exalted and high-ranking person. The second, somebody young. The third, anyone strong and in perfect health. The fourth a man who loves to drink. The fifth, a brave and daring warrior. The sixth a liar. The seventh, anContinue reading “RKS Literature: What Types of People Should Not Be Your Friends? (Yoshida Kenkō)”
RKS Literature: Should One Be Concerned with Red Tongue Days Marked on the Calendar? (Yoshida Kenkō)
“The Ying Yang masters do not concern themselves with those days of the calendar marked ‘Red Tongue Days’. Nor did people of old treat the day as unpropitious. It seems someone more recently has declared it unlucky, and now everyone has begun to avoid it, believing that things undertaken on this day will miscarry. ThisContinue reading “RKS Literature: Should One Be Concerned with Red Tongue Days Marked on the Calendar? (Yoshida Kenkō)”
RKS Literature: Perfect Regularity as Tasteless (Yoshida Kenkō)
“In all things, perfect regularity is tasteless. Something not quite finished is very appealing, a gesture towards the future. Someone told me that even in the construction of the Imperial Palace, some part is always left uncompleted.” Yoshida Kenkō, “A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees”, 1329-1331?
