“Shame, disappointment, and discomfiture gnawed at his heart: a constant apprehension of being overtaken or met – for he was groundlessly afraid even of travellers, who came towards him by the way he was going – oppressed him heavily. The same intolerable awe and dread that had come upon him in the night, returned unweakenedContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Swindler of a Man on the Run (Dickens)”
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RKS Literature: A Hollow Woman in a Hollow World (Charles Dickens)
‘I am a woman.’ she said confronting him steadfastly, ‘who from her very childhood has been shamed and steeled. I have been offered and rejected, put up and appraised, until my very soul has sickened. I have not had an accomplishment or grace that might have been a resource to me, but it has beenContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Hollow Woman in a Hollow World (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Hatred of the Boss (Charles Dickens)
‘I tell you all’, said the manager, ‘that your hypocrisy and meekness – that all the hypocrisy and meekness of this place – is not worth that to me,’ snapping his thumb and finger, ‘and that I see through it as if it were air! There is not a man employed here, standing between myselfContinue reading “RKS Literature: Hatred of the Boss (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: The Supreme Mr. Dombey (Charles Dickens)
“Mr. Dombey was resolved to show her that he was supreme. There must be no will but his. Proud he desired that she should be, but she must be proud for him, not against him. As he sat alone hardening he would often hear her go out and come home, treading the round of LondonContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Supreme Mr. Dombey (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Mrs. Dombey’s Mourning Period (Charles Dickens)
“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said it was the common lot, and the butler had said who’d have thought it, and the housemaid had said she couldn’t hardly believe it, and the footman had said it seemedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Mrs. Dombey’s Mourning Period (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Mr. Dombey’s Wife as a Chattel (Charles Dickens)
“He was not a man of whom it could properly be said that he was ever startled or shocked; but he certainly had a sense within him, that if his wife should sicken and decay, he would be very sorry and that he would find something gone from among his plate and furniture, and otherContinue reading “RKS Literature: Mr. Dombey’s Wife as a Chattel (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: The Raunchy Prince Valkovsky (Dostoevsky)
“I love influence, honours, good hotels, a huge stake at cards (I adore cards). But the main, most important thing is women….women in all theirs shapes and forms. I even go for debauchery, that’s covert, secretive, and the more eccentric and depraved the better, even with a whiff of sordidness for extra delectation….HaHaHa! You shouldContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Raunchy Prince Valkovsky (Dostoevsky)”
RKS Literature: The Lost Soul of Russians (Dostoevsky)
“He was getting steadily more drunk and maudlin. Masloboyev had always been a fine fellow, level-headed but rather too clever by half; sly, astute, devious and a scallywag from his school days, but deep down quite a softie-a lost soul. There are many amongst the Russians. They’re often endowed with considerable talent, but somehow theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Lost Soul of Russians (Dostoevsky)”
RKS Literature: The World Through the Eyes of a Child
“For it is good to have seen something of the world with childish eyes, disinterestedly and uncritically, observing not what is useful or beautiful and interesting, but only such things as, to a being less than four feet high and having no knowledge of life or art, seem immediately significant. It is the beggars, itContinue reading “RKS Literature: The World Through the Eyes of a Child”
RKS Literature: Affection and Humour
“Affections are not impaired by being tempered with a touch of benevolent laughter. Indeed, I would almost be prepared to risk a generalization and say that all true affections are tempered with laughter. For affection implies intimacy: and one cannot be intimate with another human being without discovering something to laugh at in his orContinue reading “RKS Literature: Affection and Humour”
