Ataraxia

    Humor She had her moments of ecstasy in the contemplation of beauty, periods of religious doubts, hours of religious faith Candleford was a pleasanat and peaceful place but it was no second Garden of Eden…sometimes one would break his neck falling… Cycling was considered such a sangeorus pastime that they telegraphed news of their arrival embellished only ran down two fouls, one pig and… Only for those with means, then for most and only men, then some women …soon almost anyone under forty was ‘awheel’ life at the post office was not dull, she reads between clients, though miss Lane would enter and ask if she knew all in the rules manual This postman converted at a chapel revivalist meeting and now he would ask people ‘how is it with your soul? Have you found salvation?’ impertinent questions people thought Laura invited to join the Primsrose League, but her father was a liberal, so she said so and then she was ‘contrarian’, did not think like the majority ...

  Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although it is only 1431 st on the Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   Somerset Maugham https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-summing-up-by-william-somerset.html is one of my favorite authors, notwithstanding the fact that I may find him less scintillating these days, case in point Cakes and Ale was less exhilarating that I may have expected, especially years ago   In the nineteen nineties I had to spend time in hospitals, for a duodenal ulcers and other reasons – if I go into that, I will never come back to the note – and I had some solace in that rather depressing atmosphere, and one support was Somerset Maugham, there were some female patients, young and attractive, and ...

  La Ceremonie written by Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell, directed by the former was nominated for important prizes, and won in Venice, The Volpi Cup for Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert, the latter has also won the Cesar, which is the French Oscar, the motion picture is also on The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list…you find thousands of notes on films from this and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   I have been elated by Judgement in Stone https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-judgement-in-stone-by-ruth-rendell-is.html the novel by Ruth Rendell on which La Ceremonie is based, perhaps I have been too exuberant, exhilarated, for the motion picture was not so enchanting this time, when I saw it first, it was mesmerizing   It is tempting to use the line from The History of The World as rendered by Mel Brooks, wher...

  88 out of 100 for Inception | realini

  Inception -The Shooting Script by Christopher Nolan, who has enchanted us recently with Oppenheimer http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/oppenheimer-by-christopher-nolan.html and other gems 9 out of 10     Christopher Nolan is the man of the day for the Screen Trade – there is a classic called Adventures in The Screen Trade http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/02/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html by William Goldman, that will explain this phenomenon and so much more, it is a scripture for the thespian arts   He has recently bewitched audiences with his Oppenheimer – but before I plunge into a different subject, and abandon altogether, or for the most part Inception, let me say that the latter is fascinating, bewildering, dazzling, but often incomprehensible for yours truly, so, with that out of the way, this would be a disclaimer, spoiler alert, warning, you name it, thus maybe there is no complaint or retaliation Christopher Nolan is the favorite to win at t...

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