Donald Hobern1d ago

I've got nothing positive to say about the colonialist programme with which he's most associated but #Kipling's short stories are a marvel. His prose is so controlled and modern, he throws us into minimally specified contexts, and he can sketch a character or mood with just a few words.

One example I've always loved is his Dayspring Mishandled (from Limits and Renewals). There's so much going on with this story.

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0603781h.html#01

Limits and Renewals

The Ghost MonkMar 14
"They're very shy still. Very shy. But, oh, lucky you to be able to see them! I only hear them. I daren't think what the place would be without them." - Rudyard Kipling 'They' (1905), his sentimental story of the ghosts of children haunting a garden. #BookWormSat #Kipling #ghosts #BookChatWeekly
WIST QuotationsFeb 16

A quotation from Kipling

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
 
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English writer
School History, “Dane-Geld (A.D. 980-1016),” st. 3-4 (1911) [with C.R.L. Fletcher]

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Kipling, Rudyard - School History, "Dane-Geld (A.D. 980-1016)," st. 3-4 (1911) [with C.R.L. Fletcher] | WIST Quotations

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: -- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the…

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Show threadcobJan 31

(5/7) ... attire population noire du Sud xénophobe sur ces territoires autochtones avec des enfants noirs et blancs pouvant fréquenter les mêmes écoles.(cf 1877 1889 1907) + Alabama : des ex-esclaves importés illégalement sur le Clotilda négrier tentent de revenir sans succès en Afrique (cf 1860) -> fondent communauté Africatown au nord du fleuve Mobile.
- Empire UK : colonie Inde -> naissance Rudyard #Kipling à Bombay.

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This Grandpa BlogsJan 20
The link between Harlan’s life, Kipling’s novella, and the film adds a great twist. This book shines light on the man who inspired them.
#BooksAndMovies #Kipling #FilmAndBooks
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/the-man-who-would-be-king/
The Man Who Would Be King: True Story of Josiah Harlan

The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre is an account of the life and adventures of Josiah Harlan, an American explorer.

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Erhard GollerDec 30

#30Dezember
1865 wurde Rudyard #Kipling in #Bombay geboren. Er starb am 18.01.1936 in #London. 1907 erhielt er als erster englischsprachiger #Schriftsteller den #Literaturnobelpreis. Sei bekanntestes Werk ist das #Dschungelbuch.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Rudyard Kipling – Wikipedia

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Show threadRadio Free TrumpistanNov 21
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IMO, their VERY best hit was IF.
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The Ghost MonkOct 19
"[Kipling] told me that in his own part of Sussex he had noticed a sharp division between benevolent lands and tracts of the countryside which seemed maleficent. 'There is a wood, he told me, 'which is full of a sense of ferocity and evil, secretive and menacing.'" - R T Hopkins #Hookland #Kipling