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RKS Literature: The Danger of Over Protectiveness of Children (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

There were other patients to see: an American girl of fifteen who had been brought up on the basis that childhood was intended to be all fun-his visit was provoked by the fact that she just hacked off all her hair with nail scissors. There was nothing much to be done for her-a family historyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Danger of Over Protectiveness of Children (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

RKS Literature: Can Scars of the Mind Ever Heal? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, orContinue reading “RKS Literature: Can Scars of the Mind Ever Heal? (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

RKS Literature: A Kiss Without the Passion of the Universe (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“He kissed her without enjoying it. He knew that there was passion there, but there was no shadow of it in her eyes or on her mouth; there was a faint spray of champagne on her breath. She clung nearer desperately and once more he kissed her and was chilled by the innocence of herContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Kiss Without the Passion of the Universe (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

RKS Literature: The Individuality of American Women (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“The trio of women at the table were representative of the enormous flux of American life. Nicole was the granddaughter of a self-made American capitalist and the granddaughter of a Count of the House of Lippe-Weissenfeld. Mary North was the daughter of a journeyman paper hanger and a descendant of President Tyler. Rosemary was fromContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Individuality of American Women (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

RKS Literature: “The Harvard Manner” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“McKisco’s contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buyContinue reading “RKS Literature: “The Harvard Manner” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

RKS Literature: Americans Can’t Out Fornicate Everybody (J.P. Donleavy)

“Do me a favour. See if there are any jobs open for lavatory attendants in London and I’ll come back. But in closing I want you to remember this, that this is America and we out-produce, out-manufacture, out-fight and out-screw the rest of the world but the latter is elusive.” J.P. Donleavy, “The Ginger Man”,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Americans Can’t Out Fornicate Everybody (J.P. Donleavy)”

RKS Literature: The Life of an Irish Actress (J.P. Donleavy)

“Mary an actress. Dreadful pity. I’ve got to do something about it. I’m to blame, may have even put the idea into her dark head. If she goes to fat they’ll fire her. I believe she’ll screw her way to stardom. Pole by pole. Like others do in marriage. And some to poverty, fewer toContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Life of an Irish Actress (J.P. Donleavy)”

RKS Literature: All Your Doctor Wants is to Take a Peek!

“And these doctors too. Once you let them get in these white coats and hold you by the wrist they want to tap you on the chest. Then they want to see in the mouth. Later they put you on the table and go to the cabinet for the knife. They say they just wantContinue reading “RKS Literature: All Your Doctor Wants is to Take a Peek!”

RKS Literature: Not Wanting to be Caught by Anyone (J.P. Donleavy)

“I don’t want to be caught by anybody. Nor imprisoned or put down. In England they put a rope around your neck and let you go, whoops. Just across the channel they hoist that thing, shined and sharpened and tell you lay your sylph-like thing in there. I don’t know why I am so terrifiedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Not Wanting to be Caught by Anyone (J.P. Donleavy)”

RKS Literature: “The Irish and Their Children” (J.P. Donleavy)

“The Irish feel that children are brought down on them by the wrath of God for screwing. All you hear if it weren’t for you kids life would be rosy and we could have a good time, But we worked and slaved ourselves to the bone to give you a little more than we hadContinue reading “RKS Literature: “The Irish and Their Children” (J.P. Donleavy)”