Memoirs of Casanova by Giacomo Casanova http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/06/casanova-inspired-perhaps-by-memoirs-of.html - 8 out of 10

 

Memoirs of Casanova by Giacomo Casanova http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/06/casanova-inspired-perhaps-by-memoirs-of.html

8 out of 10

 

 

In the new age of Woke, Cancel Culture, Casanova must be a no go, anathema, and the subject dropped like a hot potato, only this a free space and furthermore, there is no audience to talk about, so we are not spreading misinformation, vile sexism, because there is nobody to read these lines…and that is the way it must be

 

The usual spoiler alert, warning, disclaimer might not be justified here, now, for if you are a decent reader, then you are not interested in the Memoirs of Casanova, never mind what some obscure fellow named Realini has to say about it – it is after all evident, that was a really bad ruffian, sexist and selfish

His name has come to represent the philanderer, the one that does not stay in one relationship for more than the time it takes to have sex, ergo the word ‘relationship’ is not appropriate, he may have missed the significance, but we could also take a more tolerant view and say he suffered from priapism and other ailments

 

We could see this eternal quest for the bed and one, or more women to jump with in there as a mental illness, going back, as the cliché would have it, to childhood, where poor, little Giacomo has missed on paternal affection, and then looked for it in perpetuity, trying to have love through sex, and multiple partners

I actually identify with the man, and have been through a pathetic, long, long line of partners, in my case, because I have started (Way too) late and thus would continuously try to compensate and get more of the ‘forbidden fruit – a doctor told me, prompted by my father, that ‘you fuck or you do not, the time of the penis passes’

 

One other indulgent view might even celebrate Casanova as one of the first liberals, maybe ultra, or progressive, whatever we could call him – The Economist, in the Johnson column, has looked at the way the significance of words change, how what was acceptable, politically correct some time ago, is now a no-no

We could also do no better than read The King’s English http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, who looked at how words are misused, and change meaning – one example is infamous, which comes from infamy, but had started to be badly used as ‘famous’

After all, Casanova has entered the ‘menage a trois’, maybe even before this was a thing, and he must be praised for it – I just realized that I am probably talking nonsense, and have the fabulous luck to be without a public, thus nobody will cry out ‘cancel him, vile beast’, I have had a complaint some days ago

 

It regarded the absence of a spoiler alert – and there is one above now – and I would push this as proof of my modesty, why use a spoiler alert, when you have nobody to alert, it is superfluous, pompous and futile, but hey, given that there is a ‘reader’, I comply, even if he is now off to greener pastures

There may be another reason for this frantic urge to have sex, and that could be a broken heart, which again, was my case – spoiler on top of warning, I am really off now, writing about my worries, forget Casanova…psychology studies have demonstrated that if we write about our grievances, failures, it helps

 

At the start of the nineties, I meet a nice woman (I will make it short, though I am tempted to talk about the dog, how she in fact started talking with him, etc.) and then offer her a ride in my Audi, which was some twenty years old, but the equivalent of a helicopter then, when all you had on the roads were a few lousy jalopies, Dacias

So she takes the ride, we talk for a while, and then she says she is…Miss Romania, and then I laugh a little and retort that I am Casanova – I am mirthful now, I said something else, maybe the Maharajah of Beluchistan or something, but if I am supposed to talk about Casanova, at least I should use him as a prop here…

 

Only she meant it, and she was, which shocked yours truly, who entered this phase of denial, then acceptance of this incredible luck, or god damn miserable misfortune, depending on how we see it, after a few days confessing my love – Thomas Mann http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-magic-mountain-is-classic-that.html has a lot to object to that  - which may or may not have been deep and radiant…

From fall to spring, it could have been a paradisiacal eight months, maybe less, or more – Einstein said ‘When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours…That's relativity’- but once she told me to get lost, if not in these words, I have fallen into depression, seen a shrink, thought I would die, and then…presto, Casanova resurrected.

 

Talked to almost every skirt I saw, asked if we have a future together (if a brief one) got rejected in 90% of the cases, but then even with this failure rate, 10% of tens of thousands of small talks would still put you in the Casanova domain…yes, this could be a mea culpa, it was wrong – however, I must insist that I talked, and talked, and then when it was mutual, we stopped talking and got to ‘business’- only it was an effort to find affection, and I ended up here, alone, with just two macaws for company, and pouring my misgivings on this page…

 

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html  

Some favorite quotes-

From To The Heritage:

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”