“The Indian Empire is despotism-benevolent, no doubt, but still a despotism with theft as its final object. And so to the English of the East, sahiblog, Flory had come to hate them from living in their society, that he was quite incapable of being fair to them. For after all, the poor devils are noContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Hatred of British Imperialism in India (George Orwell)”
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RKS British Literature: A Third-Rate Public School Experience in England (George Orwell)
“From that school he went to a cheap, third-rate public school. It was a poor spurious place. It aped the great public schools with their traditions of High Anglicanism, cricket and Latin verses, and it had a school song called “The Scrum of Life’ in which God figured as the great referee. But it lackedContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Third-Rate Public School Experience in England (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: I CAN NOW SMELL MY FREEDOM! MADAME FONG HAS MISCALCULATED
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: I CAN NOW SMELL MY FREEDOM! MADAME FONG HAS MISCALCULATED My mission, if one can speak of such, was to cuddle up to Sir Reginald Nicomshire all as dictated by Madame Fong. For what reason I did not know. It all seemed facile. With myContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: I CAN NOW SMELL MY FREEDOM! MADAME FONG HAS MISCALCULATED”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Better to be in the Dark About Love and Sex (Andy Warhol)
“But then I think, maybe it works out just as well that nobody takes you out of the dark about it, because if you really knew the whole story, you wouldn’t have anything to think about or fantasize about for the rest of your life, and you might go crazy having nothing to think about,Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Better to be in the Dark About Love and Sex (Andy Warhol)”
RKS British Literature: Almost Always a Mistake to Order That Second Bottle of Wine (George Orwell)
“Gordon wasn’t being witty any longer. It is almost always a mistake to order a second bottle. It is like bathing for a second time on a summer day. However warm the day is, however much you have enjoyed the first bathe, you are always sorry for it if you go in for a secondContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Almost Always a Mistake to Order That Second Bottle of Wine (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Thievery of the British Empire (George Orwell)
“Why of course, the lie that we’re here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of rob them. I suppose it’s a natural enough lie. But it corrupts us in ways you can’t imagine. There’s an everlasting sense of being a sneak and a liar that torments us and drives us to justify ourselves nightContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Thievery of the British Empire (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Booze as the Cement of the British Empire (George Orwell)
“There’s a kind of spurious good fellowship between the English and this country. It’s a tradition to booze together and swap meals and pretend to be friends, though we hate each other like poison. Hanging together we call it. It’s a political necessity. Of course, drink is what keeps the machine going. We should allContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Booze as the Cement of the British Empire (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Public Bar in London: Home of Proletarians (George Orwell)
“Gordon shoved open the door of the public bar, Ravelston following. Ravelston persuaded himself that he was fond of pubs, especially low-class pubs. Pubs are genuinely proletarian. In a pub you can meet the working class on equal terms-or that’s the theory anyway. But in practice Ravelston never went into a pub unless he wasContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Public Bar in London: Home of Proletarians (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Covert Socialist Embarrassed with His Wealth (George Orwell)
“But in some ways Ravelston was not even like a moneyed person. The fatty degeneration of the spirit which goes with wealth had missed him, or he had escaped it by conscious effort. Indeed his whole life was a struggle to escape it. It was for this reason that he gave up his time andContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Covert Socialist Embarrassed with His Wealth (George Orwell)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THAT NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT TO MY RESCUE!
The Singapore Times Exclusive: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THAT NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT TO MY RESCUE! The intense heat and humidity experienced in George Town flared my earlier morning headache and adding to my misery a queasy stomach. Just get me my bed and a litre of Evian ASAP! But my dreams of aContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: THAT NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMAT TO MY RESCUE!”
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