“How ugly and depressing to see a house that has employed a bevy of craftsmen to work everything up to a fine finish, where all the household items set out for proud display are rare and precious foreign or Japanese objects, and where even the plants in the garden are clipped and contorted rather thanContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Boring Show Home (Yoshida Kenkō)”
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RKS Literature: The Necessary Sordidness of Cash (Herman Melville)
“The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness. Granting that the White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must alsoContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Necessary Sordidness of Cash (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Why Cling to Life to an Ugly Old Age (Yoshida Kenkō)
“If our life did not fade and vanish like the dews of Adashino’s grave or the drifting smoke from Toribe’s burning grounds, but lingered on forever, how little the world would move us. It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful. Why cling to life which cannot last forever only to arriveContinue reading “RKS Literature: Why Cling to Life to an Ugly Old Age (Yoshida Kenkō)”
RKS Literature: How to be an Elegant Lover (Yoshida Kenkō)
“The elegant thing is for a lover to wander aimlessly hither and yon, drenched with the frosts or dews of night, tormented by the fears of his parents’ reproaches and the censure of the world, the heart beset with uncertainties, yet for all that sleeping alone often, though always fitfully. On the other hand, heContinue reading “RKS Literature: How to be an Elegant Lover (Yoshida Kenkō)”
RKS Literature: Murder: Aesthetics and Morality (Thomas De Quincey)
“Murder, for instance, may be laid hold of by its moral handle, (as it generally is in the pulpit, and at the Old Bailey) and that I confess, is its weak side; or it may also be treated aesthetically, as the Germans call it, that is in relation to good taste.” Thomas de Quincey, “OnContinue reading “RKS Literature: Murder: Aesthetics and Morality (Thomas De Quincey)”
RKS Literature: The Composition of the Fine Art of Murder (Thomas De Quincey)
“People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed-a knife-a purse-and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.” Thomas de Quincey, “On Murder Considered as One of theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Composition of the Fine Art of Murder (Thomas De Quincey)”
Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”!
TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”! We are on a bit of a “crime roll” here so let’s move from horrific to humorous. A few years ago when Dylan the Westie was the Westie of the house there lived B and W, backyard neighbours of Fay and Bob. W and B wereContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ‘CRIME”!”
Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE BY AN UNUSUAL MURDERESS
TALES FROM MY HOOD: DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE BY AN UNUSUAL MURDERESS Bob told me one of the great literary influences of his life has been the lurid and sensational “Allo Police” reeking with screaming headlines published in Montreal and now long gone. Sensational and grisly photos particularly murder victims. Rape, assaults, bank robberies, drugs,Continue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: TALES FROM MY HOOD: DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE BY AN UNUSUAL MURDERESS”
RKS Literature: The Wild Vindictiveness of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
“…suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab’s leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Wild Vindictiveness of Captain Ahab Against the Accursed Moby Dick (Herman Melville)”
Lost in Puppydom Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE!
RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE! Much to my humiliation I was picked up today after a DUI! You may have heard the great golfer Tiger Woods was also recently picked up on a DUI. I have watched this event unfold over the past day or two. Bloated and puffyContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AND TIGER WOODS PICKED UP ON DUI CHARGE!”
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