The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: BACK IN SINGAPORE TO A FURIOUS AND GREASY HAIRED MADAME FONG Our private jet touched down in Singapore being greeted by customs officials in the private jet hangar. Rather odd, but perhaps so Singaporean that a team of gum sniffing dogs scoured the aircraft forContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: BACK IN SINGAPORE TO A FURIOUS AND GREASY HAIRED MADAME FONG”
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RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)
THE COYOTE AND THE MOUSE While not a poet of great renown Perhaps I relate to you a story with a frown As a golf course Marshall my job can be seen as akin to a diplomat Keeping the pace of play Making impatient golfers happy and gay I have a numbing early morning shiftContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds)”
RKS Japanese Literature: Where Art and Poetry are Born (Natsume Sōseki)
“If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to dip your oar into sentiment’s stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is not an easy place to live. And when its difficulties intensify, you find yourselfContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Where Art and Poetry are Born (Natsume Sōseki)”
RKS Russian Literature: Russian Upper Class Corrupted by French Language (Nikolay Gogol)
“It is not inappropriate to observe that the conversation of both ladies was interlarded with a great many foreign words and sometimes entire long sentences in French. But however filled the author is with veneration of the salutary benefits conferred on Russia by the French language, however filled with veneration towards our higher society’s praiseworthyContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Russian Upper Class Corrupted by French Language (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Lady Pleasant in All Respects (Nikolay Gogol)
“This name she had received in a legitimate manner, for, indeed, she spared nothing to make herself amiable to the nth degree. Although, of course, through the amiability there would dart-oh! a sudden flash of the female character! And although sometimes out of every pleasant word of hers there would stick!-oh! such a pin. AndContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Lady Pleasant in All Respects (Nikolay Gogol)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: ON MY WAY TO BE AN “INFLUENCER”? SAYONORA VIETNAMESE GENTLEMEN
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: ON MY WAY TO BE AN “INFLUENCER”? SAYONORA VIETNAMESE GENTLEMEN My winning the fixed Singapore Westie of the Year contest was an attempt to make me “a prized commodity” as Bobby Jr. put it. Why I didn’t know. That spiny black toad incident that nearlyContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: ON MY WAY TO BE AN “INFLUENCER”? SAYONORA VIETNAMESE GENTLEMEN”
RKS Russian Literature: Women Showing Their “Possessions” to Lead a Man to Ruin (Nikolay Gogol)
“The waists were pulled tight, with contours that were very firm, and pleasing to the eye (it must be noted that in general, all the ladies that lived in the town that will remain nameless were rather plump, but laced themselves so artfully and had such pleasant manners that their stoutness escaped all notice). EverythingContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Women Showing Their “Possessions” to Lead a Man to Ruin (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Dreadful and Fearsome Old Age (Nikolay Gogol)
“The fiery youth of today would recoil in horror if you were to show him a portrait of himself in old age, So take with you on your journey, as you emerge from the tender years of youth into harsh, coarsening manhood, take with you all the human impulses, do not leave them along theContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Dreadful and Fearsome Old Age (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Plyuskin the Miserly Estate Owner/Part One (Nikolay Gogol)
“At this our hero could not help but step back and stare at him intently. He happened to have seen many people of every kind, even such as the reader and I will perhaps never have occasion to see: but he had never yet set eyes on anyone like this one. The face was nothingContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Plyuskin the Miserly Estate Owner/Part One (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: The Sticky Nature of a Personal Nickname (Nikolay Gogol)
“Strongly indeed do Russian people express themselves! And if they bestow a particular epithet on someone, it will become part of his lineage and posterity, he will drag it around him into his place of work, and into his retirement, and to Petersburg, and to the ends of the earth. And however cunningly he mayContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: The Sticky Nature of a Personal Nickname (Nikolay Gogol)”
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