“When she opened her mouth to speak, she revealed horrible teeth, gray, carious, repaired rather than filled with pieces of steel-some actually rusty, other of copper covered with green verdigis. The teeth were abnormally large and crowded over each other. Broken, corroded braces stuck to them like an old barbed wire fence.” William S. Burroughs,Continue reading “RKS Literature: “Beautiful Mouth But not so Beautiful Teeth!” (William S. Burroughs)”
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RKS Literature: “Quitting Junk and the Last Words of the Mad Dog Esposito Brothers” (William S. Burroughs)
“Lee walked about the room. ‘I have to quit,’ he said over and over, feeling the gravity pull of junk in his cells. He experienced a moment of panic. A cry of despair wrenched his body: I have to get out of here: I have to make a break.’ As he said those words, heContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Quitting Junk and the Last Words of the Mad Dog Esposito Brothers” (William S. Burroughs)”
RKS Literature: Oceans are the Key to it All (Herman Melville)
“And still deeper the meaning of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the keyContinue reading “RKS Literature: Oceans are the Key to it All (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: All the Difference Between Paying and Being Paid (Herman Melville)
“And I always go to the sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.Continue reading “RKS Literature: All the Difference Between Paying and Being Paid (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: The Temporary Joy of a Successful Operation (Yury Felsen)
“I was recuperating after a successful operation. The joy, such that convalescents experience was long gone and had given way to neurotic boredom of interminable waiting. Those who are often ill know this impatient reckoning of days and hours, the alarm if the time of discharge is again discharged, the irritability brought on by theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Temporary Joy of a Successful Operation (Yury Felsen)”
RKS Literature: Post Morphine Blues (Yury Felsen)
“I would awake towards morning (already prepared for the requital) with the anguish of an unhabituated drunkard emerging from inebriation, but tenfold and irremediable. A fierce cold penetrated my body, no matter how warmly I enswathed myself. The pain would return, fortified by bitter comparison-just moments ago I had dropped off so serenely. The dayContinue reading “RKS Literature: Post Morphine Blues (Yury Felsen)”
RKS Literature: The Initial Bliss and Joy of Morphine (Yury Felsen)
“After my own operation I had experienced unremitting, unbearable pain, and over the course of ten days, every evening before sleep, that same Margarita would inject me with morphine. I cannot recall another so blissful and happy state that could compare with what you begin to feel several minutes after the injection. Somewhere inside thereContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Initial Bliss and Joy of Morphine (Yury Felsen)”
RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 2 (John Steinbeck)
“He walked around the side of his house and went in the back door. His thin petulant wife was sitting by the open gas oven warming herself. She turned complaining eyes on Mike where he stood in the doorway. Then her eyes widened and hung on his face. ‘You been with a woman,’ she saidContinue reading “RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 2 (John Steinbeck)”
RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 1 (John Steinbeck)
“Mike shied away from the contact. ‘It don’t make you feel nothing.’ He put down his head and increased his pace The little bartender had nearly to trot to keep up. The street lights were fewer. It was darker and safer. Mike burst out, “Makes you feel kind of cut off and tired, but kindContinue reading “RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 1 (John Steinbeck)”
RKS Literature: That Oft Used Parental Expression “When I’m Dead….” (Georges Simenon)
“This was the first time since I’d been with you in the room where you were slowly dying that you spoke, even indirectly, of death. When I was a child and then a young man, you often spoke of it, I’d almost say with satisfaction. ‘ When I’m dead children…..’ Or: ‘You’ll understand when I’mContinue reading “RKS Literature: That Oft Used Parental Expression “When I’m Dead….” (Georges Simenon)”
