He began to hold music responsible for the world’s ills and would even argue in his cups, that its practitioners should be wiped out, eradicated, like a disease. Music was a virus, an infection, and music lovers were comparable to those globe-trotting sexual immoralists whose nameless activities had resulted in the global spread of syphilis.Continue reading “RKS Literature: Emerging Rock n Roll in India as a Decadent Virus (Salman Rushdie)”
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RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Hymie’s Bull (Ralph Ellison)
Bulls are pretty bad people to meet if you’re a bum. They have head-whipping down to a science and they’re always ready to go into action. They know all the places to hit a bone to turn it into jelly, and they seem to feel just the place to kick you to make your backboneContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Hymie’s Bull (Ralph Ellison)”
PRESS RELEASE: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TO CONTINUE HIS ADVENTURES AND SHARING WITH THE WORLD: “BEYOND PUPPYDOM”
Canine News: Alstätten, Switzerland; 5August2026: In an exclusive interview with Bob, master of the famous soon to be one year old West Highland Terrier Rory Dylan Stephen, we can confirm the following; Rory is undergoing intensive trauma therapy at the Kay Nine Clinic in Alstätten, Switzerland Rory will continue publicizing his observations, trials, adventures andContinue reading “PRESS RELEASE: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TO CONTINUE HIS ADVENTURES AND SHARING WITH THE WORLD: “BEYOND PUPPYDOM””
THE PENNILESS PENSIONER WINE OBSERVATION: CABALLO DORADO A CARMENÈRE FROM CHILE
Carmenére is one of the consistently good red Chilean wines. And it meets my criteria of $16 and under. And if you believe in ratings it has received a 92 from James Suckling which means I would subtract 4 points from that. He suffers from inflationary scores. And as pensioners don’t we know about inflation.Continue reading “THE PENNILESS PENSIONER WINE OBSERVATION: CABALLO DORADO A CARMENÈRE FROM CHILE”
RKS Literature: British Boarding Schools Creators of Psychopaths (Salman Rushdie)
Cyrus Cama was sent away to boarding school, still with murder in his eyes, banished to an implacable hill-station establishment which based its methods upon the tried and true British principles of cold baths, bad food, regular beatings and high-quality academic instruction, and which helped him to develop into the full-blooded psychopath he afterwards became.Continue reading “RKS Literature: British Boarding Schools Creators of Psychopaths (Salman Rushdie)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: The Chink of Gold Coins on the Roulette Table Drives the Gambler into Near Convulsions! (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
When I hear the cries of the croupiers – ‘Trente-et-un rouge, impair et passe’. ‘Quatre, noir, pair et manque’ it’s with a sort of apprehension, a sort of sinking feeling in my heart. How greedily I look at the gaming table, with its scattered louis d’or, gold friedrichs and thalers, at the streams of goldContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: The Chink of Gold Coins on the Roulette Table Drives the Gambler into Near Convulsions! (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS ARGENTINIAN FILM: “The Dollmaker” (Encantador) 2025: Political Horror?
American horror films in many respects are simply boring. Deserted cabin in the woods and take it from there. Canadian horror films are marginally superior. The real horror resides of late in Mexican and Argentinian films. “The Dollmaker” is no exception. It combines sophisticated and clever horror with a political allegorical twist. Expect Pee WeeContinue reading “RKS ARGENTINIAN FILM: “The Dollmaker” (Encantador) 2025: Political Horror?”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: With Gambling You Have Renounced Everything! (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
‘You have not only renounced life, with its interest and social ties, but the duties of a citizen and a man. You have not only given up the friends I knew you had, and every aim in life except winning money, but you have also given up your memories. Although I can remember you duringContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: With Gambling You Have Renounced Everything! (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Always…The Next Spin of the Roulette Wheel (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
I have a feeling of expectation and it can’t be wrong. I’ve got 15 louis d’or now, though I only began with fifteen gulden. If I play carefully to start with…..But no! Surely I’m not such a fool as that. I’m a lost soul. But why should I not rise from the dead? All IContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Always…The Next Spin of the Roulette Wheel (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS Literature: What Does Song Show Us? (Salman Rushdie)
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many painful ways deficient. Song turns them into something else. Song shows us a world that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us our selves as they might be, if we were worthy of the world. Salman Rushdie, “The Ground BeneathContinue reading “RKS Literature: What Does Song Show Us? (Salman Rushdie)”
