Woke up and packed up for the last time on this vacation. Becoming weary of this pack and unpack. I see the theoretical attraction to cruising. No incessant packing and unpacking. Perhaps the sole advantage to travelling in seven story floating hotels except of course for the incessant buffets! Bring on obesity! I hear theContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:Good-Bye Greece: Unpleasant Arriving and Unpleasant Leaving!”
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2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span version: 23September2026: Some Lack of Integrity Issues on Spetses?
The buggy tour of Spetses may very well have been the best moments of our trip with T and I. A thirty-kilometre tour along the coast replete with spectacular vantage points of forests, scrubland, secluded beaches and coves. I can’t recall even encountering any cars or motorcycles and the grilled octopus lunch at Paradise BeachContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span version: 23September2026: Some Lack of Integrity Issues on Spetses?”
RKS British Literature: SAVAGERY AND CIVILIZATION (Joseph Conrad)
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. The courage, the composure, the confidence; the emotions and principles; every great and insignificant thought belongs not to the individual but to the crowd thatContinue reading “RKS British Literature: SAVAGERY AND CIVILIZATION (Joseph Conrad)”
RKS French Literature: The Meanest Type of Woman (Anaïs Nin)
It was Michel who counseled Linda never to be jealous, that she must remember there were more women in the world than men, especially in France, and that a woman must be generous with her husband – think how many women would be left without a knowledge of love. He said this seriously. He thoughtContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Meanest Type of Woman (Anaïs Nin)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Old Men, Dogs, Bacon and Skirts (Władysław Reymont)
It’s obvious a skirt’ll lead a man further than a dog after bacon, for the dog’s more likely to hang back! And an old man’s easier than a young’un. He’s greedier and it’s harder for him to seek his pleasures in other folk’s cottages. Go right ahead, you’ll soon be thanking me! And as forContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Old Men, Dogs, Bacon and Skirts (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS French Literature: The French Hairdresser as the Priest of Perfection (Anaïs Nin)
The contour of a shoe, the sleekness of a glove, these give the Parisian woman a trimness, an audacity, that far surpasses the seductiveness of other women. Centuries of coquetry have produced a kind of perfection that is apparent not only in the rich women but in the little shop girls. And the hairdresser isContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The French Hairdresser as the Priest of Perfection (Anaïs Nin)”
RKS American Literature: Fortunes to be Made Raising Chickens (Sherwood Anderson)
One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned. Small chickens, just setting out on the journey of life, look so bright and alert and they are in fact so dreadfully stupid. They are so much like people they mix one up in one’s judgements of life. If disease does notContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Fortunes to be Made Raising Chickens (Sherwood Anderson)”
RKS American Literature: Why I Am Inclined to See the Darker Side of Life (Sherwood Anderson)
The first venture into which the two people went turned out badly. They rented ten acres of poor stony land on Grigg’s road, eight miles from Bidwell, and launched into chicken raising. I grew into boyhood on the place and got my first impressions of life there. From the beginning, they were impressions of disasterContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Why I Am Inclined to See the Darker Side of Life (Sherwood Anderson)”
RKS French Literature: The Meaning of Parisian Chic (Anaïs Nin)
When Linda had first arrived in Paris from the little town in the South of France where she was born and she and her husband met, she was only twenty years old. She was badly dressed, shy, innocent. She had luxuriant hair which she did not know how to arrange. She used no make-up. WalkingContinue reading “RKS French Literature: The Meaning of Parisian Chic (Anaïs Nin)”
RKS French Literature: The Role of a Parisian Hairdresser (Anaïs Nin)
The Parisian hairdresser plays a vital role in the life of a French woman. He not only dresses her hair, about which she is particularly fastidious, but he is an arbiter of fashion. He is her best critic and confessor in matters of love. The two hours that it takes to get one’s hair washed,Continue reading “RKS French Literature: The Role of a Parisian Hairdresser (Anaïs Nin)”
