“The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavored to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition in hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Miserable Details of Commerce (Mary Shelley)”
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RKS Literature: Parents as Creators Not Tyrants (Mary Shelley)
“No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingledContinue reading “RKS Literature: Parents as Creators Not Tyrants (Mary Shelley)”
RKS Literature: Leisure, Security and the Stupefaction of Poverty (George Orwell)
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves, and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they wouldContinue reading “RKS Literature: Leisure, Security and the Stupefaction of Poverty (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: The High, The Middle and the Low of Society
“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic stage, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative different numbers, as well as their attitude towards another, haveContinue reading “RKS Literature: The High, The Middle and the Low of Society”
RKS Literature: The Party’s View of Its Ideal Society and Reality (George Orwell)
“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the sameContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Party’s View of Its Ideal Society and Reality (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: The Lottery and the Proles (George Orwell)
“The Lottery with its weekly payout of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that were some million of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectualContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Lottery and the Proles (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: Pornography for the Proles (George Orwell)
“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing but sport, crime, astrology, sensational five cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known asContinue reading “RKS Literature: Pornography for the Proles (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: Evil Children Burning a Woman Wrapping Up Sausages in a Poster of Big Brother
‘Did I ever tell you old boy,’ he said, chuckling round the stem of his pipe,’ about the time those two nippers of mine set fire to the old market woman’s skirt because they saw her wrapping up sausages in a poster of B.B.? Sneaked up behind her and set fire to it with aContinue reading “RKS Literature: Evil Children Burning a Woman Wrapping Up Sausages in a Poster of Big Brother”
RKS Literature: Control of Society Through Falsification/Rectification (George Orwell)
“This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs-to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this wayContinue reading “RKS Literature: Control of Society Through Falsification/Rectification (George Orwell)”
RKS Literature: Children as Ungovernable Savages (George Orwell)
“With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another two years, and they would be watching her day and night for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies there were systematically turnedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Children as Ungovernable Savages (George Orwell)”
A Bird's Eye View of Fashion, Food, Travel, Culture, Beverage and Curiosity 