“Mrs Lackersteen began with some general remarks, apropos of a photograph in the Tatler, about these fast modern girls who went about in beach pajamas and all that and made themselves so dreadfully cheap with men. A girl, Mrs Lackersteen said, should never make herself too cheap with a man; she should make herself-but theContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Fast, Modern but Cheap English Girls (George Orwell)”
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RKS British Literature: The Youngest Son of a Peer: What a Cad! (George Orwell)
“Horsemanship and physical fitness were the only gods he knew. The stamp of hooves on the maidan, the strong poised feeling of his body, wedded centaur-like to the saddle, the polo-stick springy in his hand-these were his religion, the breath of his life. The Europeans in Burma-boozing, womanizing, yellow-faced loafers-made him physically sick when heContinue reading “RKS British Literature: The Youngest Son of a Peer: What a Cad! (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: THE NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT AWFULLY SUSPICIOUS
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: THE NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT AWFULLY SUSPICIOUS VX Nerve Agent, a classic North Korean assassination weapon from a country building up a frightening array of chemical weapons was Nicomshire’s cause of death. Strong suspicion in my canine brain thisContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: THE NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT AWFULLY SUSPICIOUS”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: AUTOPSY RESULTS ON SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE RELEASED
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: AUTOPSY RESULTS ON SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE RELEASED Over breakfast on the Eastern & Oriental Express it was announced the autopsy of Sir Reginald Nicomshire concluded the poor bloke was poisoned with VX Nerve Agent the substance used toContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: AUTOPSY RESULTS ON SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE RELEASED”
RKS British Literature: Failed English Girls to the Indian Meat Market (George Orwell)
“She’s come out to lay her claws into a husband of course. As if it wasn’t well known! When a girl’s failed everywhere else she tries India, where every man’s pining for the sight of a white woman. The Indian marriage-market they call it. Meat market it ought to be. Shiploads of ‘em coming outContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Failed English Girls to the Indian Meat Market (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Mrs Lackersteen’s Inability to Focus on Anything (George Orwell)
“Mrs Lackersteen was one of those people who go utterly to pieces when they are deprived of servants. She lived in a restless nightmare between painting and housekeeping and never worked at either. At irregular intervals she went to “school” where she produced greyish still lifes under the guidance of a master whose technique wasContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Mrs Lackersteen’s Inability to Focus on Anything (George Orwell)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK Survival Skills (Audre Lorde)
“One of the most basic Black survival skills is the ability to change, to metabolize experience, good or ill, into something that is useful, lasting, effective. Four hundred years of survival as an endangered species has taught most of us that if we intend to live, we had better become fast learners. Malcom knew this.Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK Survival Skills (Audre Lorde)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS?: THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS?: THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS We arrived back in Singapore Woodlands Train Station. All train staff and passengers were prohibited from leaving the Eastern & Oriental Express until all were questioned by a joint team of investigators from Malaysia andContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: MURDER ON THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS?: THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Do You Cast the Right or Wrong Person for a Movie Role? (Andy Warhol)
“If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the part would be too much. Besides, no person is ever completely right for any part, because a part is a role is neverContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Do You Cast the Right or Wrong Person for a Movie Role? (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: How to Make America More Beautiful (Andy Warhol)
“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald’s. America is really The Beautiful. But it would be more beautiful if everybody had enough money to live.” Andy Warhol, “Fame”, 1975.
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