Ataraxia

  Los Mejores Cuentos Eroticos aka The Best Erotic Tales by Giovanni Boccaccio – a previous look at the Decameron is here   https://realini.blogspot.com/2012/05/decameron.html it was twelve years ago, flawed view   9 out of 10   I was very surprised to find The Decameron on the list of The 100 Greatest Books of All Time, since I used to know it as literature that seemed explicit, pornographic for the adolescent who was told about this not by the literature teacher, but by some other teenager, who found out about putting the devil in hell from the oeuvre   It is prudish, preposterous to say ‘oh, this has sex in it, and it is so detailed, and with the words, and felatio, oh my god’ so I get it, and let me emphasize the pleasure I have had when, at the age of sixteen or thereabouts, I could read, again and again, about the fellow who lands at the abbey, or is it monastery, maybe there is a difference He was some gardener – it did not matter then, the details were irrelevant

  On Liars – Essays of Michel de Montaigne – The Complete Essays are among the 100 Greatest Books of All Time – my note on some of some of these exquisite thoughts are at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-essays-book-i-aka-les-essais-livre.html along with hundreds of other reviews   10 out of 10   The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne is not just a chef d’oevre, it is also a companion for many days…long, long days, for it has what, over fourteen hundred pages, and this is not to complain, indeed, I realized this morning that I have something fabulous, astounding to keep me high for days ahead, in the morning   I have taken to listening to the audiobook – you can get the magnum opera from the Gutenberg project, or the LibriVox site – as I run in the early hours, and this might be the perfect balance, and more – ‘Happiness Activity No 12: Taking care of Your Body- engaging in physical activity, meditating and smiling and laughing’ The latter is from the g

  The Model and Other Stories aka Το μοντέλο και άλλες ιστορίες by Anais Nin, an overwhelming read, erotic   9 out of 10   This is incredible, and I mean that – it was for me, the encounter with these extremely arousing stories was a shock, trying to be mirthful, I was thinking that we had here some years, even decades back, Sandra Brown, as a famous – maybe infamous, we need to consult Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html on this matter - author of soft porn tales   In the days of the communist regime, we had to resort to other sources for wet dreams, other activities and I remember Ion https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/10/ion-by-liviu-rebreanu-another-note-on.html a celebrated local opus, indeed, the author, Liviu Rebreanu, was part of the curriculum, one had to study him However, there were some hot scenes – I stopped before putting that in, realizing that they were far from titillating, in a wo

  On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne, author of one of the Greatest books of All Time, my note on some of this fleuve are at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-essays-of-michel-de-montaigne-on.html   10 out of 10   Michel de Montaigne was one of the brightest minds of all time, however much we could try and poke holes, or apply some of our standards to his writing and go ‘oho, this is not ethical, appropriate, inclusive or whatever today – for instance, I am thinking now of the passage where he says something along the lines of   ‘I am not interested if a coachman is clean, if the waiter is smart, I need them to do their job’, this is no way near what he said actually, but that is how it gets distorted in my head, and this serves as a warning, it is what you are about to get more of, if you stay on this page, we could try and entice you, twist this around- Hey, this is creative, inventive, you will get an unexpected, outré angle, even if it means reading with

  La Cloche de Verre by Anais Nin, in a brief assessment, I would say this works like magic, or Viagra, perhaps Sidenafil   10 out of 10   I am reading the astounding Delta of Venus and I am flabbergasted, it is both hot, nay, incendiary, and hard to take in, I mean it is so erotic, arousing that I forget I will be sixty-one in February – indeed, our fantastic, greatest luminary, Andrei Plesu has something to share on the matter, albeit it is from a late friend of his   Our Magister Ludi and philosopher spoke about getting old, and the advantages we have in that process (yes, I know it is counterintuitive, but we are talking Silver Lining Playbook https://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/limitless-leslie-dixon-screenplay-and.html so be a merit finder, not a fault finder) When advanced in age, you get away with spots on the tie – if you wear one – do not care so much about (well, anything, look at Orange Jesus, favorite to win the most powerful position in the world, again, a

  The Essays   book I aka Les Essais Livre I by Michel de Montaigne, author of Essays on Friendship, my note on this is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-friendship-by-michel-de-montaigne.html along with other reviews   10 out of 10     Let us try to start off with an attempt to be humorous – this is so spectacular that it is very difficult to read, I mean I am trying the audiobook version – by the way, seeing that this is centuries old, and thus the copyright has expired also some hundreds of years back, you can listen to it for free, or find it on this site https://www.gutenberg.org/   It is more difficult to listen to someone reading the book for you, it is nay impossible if we are talking about Ulysses or Beckett https://realini.blogspot.com/2013/08/molloy-by-samuel-beckett.html and Michel de Montaigne has so much packed in, that the average brain would have trouble assimilating, at least mine has On the other hand, there is a lot that makes sense,