Ataraxia

  Socrates – A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson is a wonderful book – you find thousands of notes on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other relevant lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, perhaps you care to visit   9 out of 10   Paul Johnson https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html is the outstanding author of Intellectuals, and having enjoyed that so much, I was eager to read Socrates, indeed, the writer has a history of Christianity that I could – maybe should – read, except it is around twenty four hours long   Socrates has always been a favorite role model for me, as a teenager, I had the chance to encounter him in spirit, learning about the famous Oracle of Delphi statement that he was the wisest man of ancient days, and then how he was puzzled, not arrogant over it, and realized it must be because he does not claim t...

  Quadrophenia – written by Dave Humphries, Martin Stellman, Franc Roddam, and directed by the latter is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   There are some phenomenal actors in this motion picture, one of them is Ray Winstone https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/last-orders-is-fabulous-breathtaking.html before the days of his Sexy Beast, The Departed, Last Orders, or even Cold Mountain filmed near my house in Rosenau, about twenty five years ago   Jimmy Cooper is the hero, or anti -hero maybe a better description, of this movie, released in 1979, forty-seven years ago, and he looks like a Rebel Without a Cause -incidentally, this is the tattoo which this psychologist has, the one I meet at the gym, who got me into some trouble, little mess, bust still, I am...

  The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau was The 1957 Winner of The Oscar for Best Documentary, it was also the Palme d’Or Winner in 1956 and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movie Ever Made – you find notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a pioneer of ocean exploration and a ‘celebrity’ when we were very young, we watched his documentaries with great interest and elation – they were aired on television under Ceausescu because there was nothing political about the seas, whales and fish, or at least commies did not mind it   The politics were in fact connected with the paramount duty to save the oceans, and the planet in general, drawing attention to the threats posed by humans to the life of various (if not all species) and we see striking images with the beauty of the under-water life, fish, plants, cor...

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  Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante is on the 650 th spot on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which is the reason why I have tried to enjoy it: alas, it does not work for me and that should be about all I have to say about it, only there is more in the lines below – you find thousands of notes on books from The GOAT and other relevant sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   6 out of 10   Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html said : ‘First you want to get hold of something to say, then you fudge up a plot of a story of some kind, and then you put in bits of things you have seen and heard round the place, and then you try and make it all sound sort of interesting or witty or funny or unusual or striking in some way. If you find some bit that isn't that, you work at it until it is, or at least as near it as you can get.’ And I lo...

  The Front Runner by Matt Bai is not one of the best motion pictures you could see, it is not one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, nevertheless, the story is relevant and this cinephile has enjoyed it – for notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other sites you could check my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   I have written a review on The Front Runner https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-front-runner-based-on-book-by-matt.html but it was on some channel recently, and although it is not spectacular, it is still worth watching, especially given the contrast between what happened in 1988 and then in 2016 and then in   -           2024   The American electorate brought on top of the world an Orange Joker – he is still there as we speak – recently, even after he showed between 2016 and 2020 what he can do, what with...