RKS Japanese Literature: All Men Long to be Pimps (Minako Ohba)

“Strangely enough, the man tended to feel pleasure in his exclusive possession of a woman who was constantly being pursued by other men. Far from merely tolerating her pretended flirtations with other men, he tended to encourage them. Deep down, it seems, all men long to join the species we call ‘pimps’. Minako Ohba, “TheContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: All Men Long to be Pimps (Minako Ohba)”

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: HONG KONGER’S ARE EVIL?

THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: HONG KONGER’S ARE EVIL?  Airplane trip on Cathay Pacific from EWR to Hong Kong and no Betsy lager beer or fancy ice cream for me. I end up queasy with a full bladder in some huge area with suitcases and crates. I pee all over myself and vomit inContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: HONG KONGER’S ARE EVIL?”

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: FROM NORTH BERGEN WALMART SUPERCENTRE TO EWR

THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: FROM NORTH BERGEN WALMART SUPERCENTRE TO EWR After a very long drive to North Bergen, New Jersey we arrived. Me and some twenty dogs. We had a pee break in Aurora, New York and our drivers gave all of us some kibble while they had a few $10 martinisContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: FROM NORTH BERGEN WALMART SUPERCENTRE TO EWR”

RKS Literature: Worsening Hunger (George Orwell)

“On the second day I thought of pawning my overcoat, but it seemed too far to walk to the pawnshop, and I spent the day in bed, reading the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was all that I felt equal to, without food. Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like theContinue reading “RKS Literature: Worsening Hunger (George Orwell)”

RKS Japanese Literature: The Last Stages of Ritual Suicide (seppuku) of Lieutenant Takeyama Shinji (Yukio Mishima)

“Was this seppuku? He was thinking. It was a sensation of utter chaos, as if the sky had fallen on his head and the world was reeling drunkenly. His will power and courage, which had seemed so robust before he made the incision, had now dwindled to something like a singe hair-like thread of steelContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Last Stages of Ritual Suicide (seppuku) of Lieutenant Takeyama Shinji (Yukio Mishima)”

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: WITH TOP DOGS TO NUDE JERSEY WALMART PARKING LOTS

THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: WITH TOP DOGS TO NUDE JERSEY WALMART PARKING LOTS The Singapore Times Exclusive: In a Toronto Opium Den on my Way to North Bergen, Nude Jersey Madame Fong was a 335-pound trans he him her or they..not sure. From the back door it was down to a basement opiumContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: WITH TOP DOGS TO NUDE JERSEY WALMART PARKING LOTS”

RKS Literature: The Almost Pleasure of Being Down and Out (George Orwell)

“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, as knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs-and well here are theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Almost Pleasure of Being Down and Out (George Orwell)”

RKS Japanese Literature: A Soldiery Lecture by Lieutenant Takeyama Shinji to His Wife Reiko (Yukio Mishima)

“They refrained from taking a honeymoon trip, these being times of national emergency. The couple spent their wedding night at this house. Before going to bed Shinji knelt formally on the matted floor with his sword laid at his knees and bestowed on his wife a soldierly lecture. A woman who had become the wifeContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: A Soldiery Lecture by Lieutenant Takeyama Shinji to His Wife Reiko (Yukio Mishima)”

RKS Japanese Literature: Used Bathwater from the Prison (Nagai Kafū)

“And on sultry summer evenings, peering through sparse reed blinds, I have had a clear view of the secrets of these people’s households. How well I recall passing by here on afternoons where the prisoner’s used bathwater would gush down the drainage ditches below the tenement’s windows, raising clouds of foul-smelling steam. It must beContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: Used Bathwater from the Prison (Nagai Kafū)”

RKS Japanese Literature: The Pure Art of Conversation Lost on People Like This (Nagai Kafū)

“Now the argument centres on him until the evening dishes line up beneath the dusky lamp-boiled beans, pickled vegetables, a stew of fish bones and scallions, and a rice tub smeared with dirty fingerprints. Gathered around their flimsy table, the family talk about uncle so-and-so, who showed up wanting to know the cost of Mother’sContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Pure Art of Conversation Lost on People Like This (Nagai Kafū)”