miercuri, 4 ianuarie 2023
marți, 3 ianuarie 2023
The Queen, Episode 8, ‘Souvenirs, Novelties, Party Tricks…Try This One, This Will Make You Very Popular’…from Top Secret http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world
The Queen,
Episode 8, ‘Souvenirs, Novelties, Party Tricks…Try This One, This Will Make You
Very Popular’…from Top Secret http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world
Perhaps I
never recovered from the shock of hearing that I am in the car with the most
beautiful woman in the realm, The Queen of Beauty, officially registered as
that – with the benefits and the obligations, the latter part being something I
tried to take on, and getting involved in the legal shenanigans was wrong on
some fronts, it involved paying some bills, encouraging the view that I am a
sort of member of the support team, for quite a while the only one, and then
leading , or helping prompting one crisis where she acts as if I am the humble
assistant, when calling the Bulgarian holder of the Beauty Pageant rights to
let him know she is available to fuck (in my perverse mind of that moment) and
then getting slapped for the offense (it is so comforting to know nobody is
reading this really, and hence there are no implications over this, but just in
case there is a thought out there, let me repeat that all similarities between
personages here and real persons are purely coincidental or whatever the legalese
is over fiction and no connection with reality) eventually it is one of the
reasons for the final parting and something to both sooth (it was not all
inexplicable and undeserved in other words) and lament over, how could I be
such a goddamn idiot and blow it all to smithereens with my foolishness…
It seems as
a high point, something to brag about, which may be subconsciously the point of
all this, no matter how small the audience, non-extant really, there is the
notion that somebody out there might find about what a great, enticing chap I
have been (chump would be one other word for it) when even the royalty has
wanted to consort with me, if briefly and who knows to what end, now this is
another purpose of all this scribbling, to see if a significance, some lost
meaning does not jump up from the pages…if you are here, and see sense, please
share it so that I have my own epiphany, find that The Man Upstairs really
wanted me to launch this young lady on her path and let us say that her public,
if there is one, has to thank me for a small contribution I would have made to
her accomplished performances, if any
The
downside of the zenith reached with this good looking princess is that once the
peak of the mountain is reached, then it is all downhill and what is there to
compare with the Reine – the antidote for the anticlimax of reaching a peak and
the finding the aftermath daunting, maybe even adverse could be found in the
works of Tal Ben-Shahar http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-pursuit-of-perfect-by-tal-ben-shahar.html who insists that we have to enjoy
the ride on the mountain and not concentrate on the ‘ultimate goal’ – he
mentions the example of the one who is focused on reaching a top position and
he endures with the idea that after some time, reward is coming (yes, there is
much to say from Delayed Gratification and the Marshmallow Experiment) and then
we see the fellow advancing gradually, until the age when somebody steps into
the office and says it is time to retire and the revelation is that he kept struggling
to the limit where it has all been just an endurance game…
Tal Ben-Shahar
offers the hamburger models for the various errors we commit, from the
nihilists who care nothing about present or future, to the extreme hedonists,
who would rather have the most intense joy now, regardless of the post prandial
effects of overstuffing too much on the plate, and we have to find the
Aristotelian Golden Mean http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-golden-platinum-rules-and-crown.html on each side of virtue, you have
vice, and in this particular case, to concentrate too much on an elusive goal
for sixty years in the future is just as wrong as not caring what tomorrow
brings
The peak
reached then is in sharp contrast with the bottom of the sea – in some
interpretation of the spouse, who affirms with conviction that I am a good for
nothing leach, lazy bastard, parasite, mad man and much more – where I lay now,
as guardian of the geese, with no friends, though one is resurrected in some
form, after quarrelling last year, when I disagreed with his laxitude towards a
party I hate (which in the meantime has formed an alliance with the one I
support and they govern together now) now we are talking again and maybe we reestablish
as in Casablanca http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/casablanca-with-humphrey-bogart-and.html the ‘beginning of a new (old) friendship’
Looked at
from the other, let us say opposite side, I was just an accident, somebody who
had to be there in the beginning of the education process, stumbled on and then
maybe used for a while, on the way to the top – Stumbling On Happiness is a
classic of psychology by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/06/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html and it demonstrates how we are not
happy with the things we think will make us so, there are a number of Myths,
one would be the California or Pacific Island move myth, the notion that if we
were to move to one of those blessed places, we would be so happy, and instead,
we suffer from the phenomenon called Hedonic Adaptation
She would remember
the name, for it is so peculiar, the question might be what does she associate
it with, were it to be said in front of her – indeed, one later incident could
have stigmatized the bearer forever, since I think I remember one would be
actress, aspiring probably at the time, telling me of a scene happening at the
theater, between rehearsals, where this other student in acting tells a story
with me as protagonist and villain: she had had sex with me, following a trip
to Snagov, on the tiny, two-people boat to the island where some legends would
have the source for the Dracula myth, Vlad Tepes, buried and then after the
mesmerizing trip into a wondrous landscape, she performed felatio and I engaged
in cunilingus, so some days or weeks after this, she wants me to take her to
this spot near Rossetti, then to some other and on and on, looking for the
lover, or man she wanted and could not find, until it got very late and we
stopped in the parking lot (then there was one, now it is a tramway line there)
and I said this is the end of the journey for me, unless we have the ‘friends
with benefits’ treatment, for I had worked as her driver and provider of
logistics, Audi and guard (as in the German shepherd was on board, but then he
always was) and now she should show her appreciation…
Alternatively,
maybe not, but then I was too tired to move, if I did not get a ‘massage with
happy ending’ – this is just a manner of speaking, for though the role of
massage and just plain touching is key, studies have shown that we need this,
indeed, it is mentioned in the Tal Ben-Shahar courses at Harvard, I have always
refused when possible, the ads that ask for money for this type of interaction,
and opt for the sex when available, forget the massage happy finale – my share
of the benefits, then I will no longer provide transportation and just jump in
my bed…
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luni, 2 ianuarie 2023
The Darkwater Hall Mystery by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, author of Stanley And The Women http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/02/stanley-and-women-by-kingsley-amis-10.html and more than another seventeen mesmerizing novels - 10 out of 10
The
Darkwater Hall Mystery by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, author of Stanley And
The Women http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/02/stanley-and-women-by-kingsley-amis-10.html and more than another seventeen mesmerizing
novels
10 out of
10
The
Darkwater Hall Mystery is one of the short stories from the Collection that proves
once again, if that was necessary, the inventivity, wide range of subjects
(unlimited) which the Zen Master can write about and enchant his readers, this
book has started with three stories that have military themes, My Enemy’s Enemy
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/11/magister-ludi-kingsley-amis-and-my.html was the first, exposing with humor
the excesses of officers during World War II, and presumably before and after
it
Court of
Inquiry http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/11/court-of-inquiry-by-messiah-of-comedy.html presents the public with the case
of a pompous Major Raleigh, who takes Frank Archer to the named Court, because
the latter had left an engine behind, a piece of equipment that did not
function, had no spare parts, while another, in good order, was available and
had parts to spare…this was all just to ‘make a point’, but nonetheless, the
symbolism was one of abuse of power, wasting time and energy for no good
reason.
Moral Fiber
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/12/moral-fibre-by-magician-kingsley-amis.html changes tack, after I spy Strangers
has ended the war miniseries, with an ersatz parliament that presents some
outlandish, extreme views on the Soviet Union, which at that simulacrum of a
parliamentary debate was embraced by one side as the fiend, nay, brother to
have and hold on to, which is so outrageous.
We live on
the wrong side of the old Iron Curtain (if this is not wrong, then Winston
Churchill is the one that coined the term) and the next generation at the very
least will still see the consequences of the system brought in by the soviet
Big Brother, the descendant of which is now killing hundreds of thousands in
Ukraine and elsewhere, an article in The Economist was talking about the deadly
effect that this invasion started by the Butcher in the Kremlin will have on
populations throughout Europe, with winter coming, prices of energy soaring,
multitudes will die because they will lack the means to stay warm…
In a recent
talk, the man who suffers from the Napoleon complex admitted that they attack
the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, thus plunging one third or more of that wretched
country into darkness and cold, with freezing temperatures now here to stay for
months, pretending that the enemy has attacked that bridge to Crimea, and then
some military basis in Russia, when what is expected of foes of the Kremlin is
to just jump down and lay there, waiting for the ax to fall and behead them…
This is so
atrocious, but let me just for the moment get back to the short stories, I was
going to mention the Moral Fibre, just before the anger at Putin got the better
of me (one of the very few comments I have on the blog http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world
states that I must be paid for displaying this aggression towards the
Evil Empire, when in fact, I and the rest of this realm have paid so much for
the benefit of communism, which they imposed here and I cannot help ranting on
the subject, whenever there seems to be a ‘by the way’ and most often, when
there is no connection with the topic at play) and expressed my chagrin
In moral
fiber we have an unusual situation, for the social worker, Webster, is not the
good personage, on the contrary, she is overwhelming, domineering, Pretentious
and stifling with her arrogance and narcissism the ‘fallen woman, Betty, who is
in The Zone, Flow, at her zenith when she is associated with the ‘business
girls’, having coitus with sailors and making money, and not when she is taken
back to the family, where she appears to be suffocating, she does not like it
and she is unhappy and imprisoned…
Then we
have the Science fiction stories, SF drink as some of them have been called,
where Simpson is sent into the future, exploring what will have happened, one
atomic war will have destroyed an area the size of Europe, vines, barley and
other crops will have been annihilated and those who want a drink are reduced
to using…shoe polish and other quite disgusting materials and techniques to get
some alcohol, some will organize and found The Friends of Plonk, which is the
title of one of these tales
Darkwater
Hall Mystery offers readers a detective story, wherein we have doctor Watson on
loan from Conan Doyle, and because Sherlock Holmes is missing, more likely
because His Serenity Kingsley Amis has wished to change the focus, offer un
changement, the good doctor is invited to prevent a murder from happening.
Lady
Fairfax is a beautiful, unusual blonde young woman who seeks protection for her
husband, Magistrate Harry Fairfax, who in the course of his duty had sentenced
a poacher called Black Ralph, who will no doubt try to exact revenge, even if
the reader (or at least the under signed ) is tempted to see other suspects.
As Doctor
Watson arrives at the mansion of the lady, he meets a twin brother of Harry
Fairfax, who complains that he was born only twenty minutes later, but this
means he lost the house, property and everything else to his older sibling and
bingo, one is tempted to say ‘now there is someone who could try to kill the magistrate
and make it look like it was the poacher, who is getting anyway all the
attention.
This is
something they use in magic, that is how many (maybe most) tricks work, while
we are focused on one hand or action taking place in one spot, the other hand
is stealing wallets, pulling ‘tricks’…one compelling experiment shows this in
practice, participants in this test had been told to count passes between two
teams, which they did, but when they were asked about the gorilla in the room,
they had no answer, albeit at one point in the game, somebody walked in the
field, dressed as a gorilla…because the participants in the research had been
focused on the task, they failed to notice something else…I thought this could
be the case in this mystery, we watch for Black Ralph and somebody else steps
in
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