A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf – author of To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, both included on the Top 100 Best Books of All Time list - 9 out of 10

 

A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf – author of To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, both included on the Top 100 Best Books of All Time list

 

9 out of 10

 

‘Certainly! “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf is a captivating short story that both adheres to and subverts the conventions of the ghost story genre. Let me summarize it for you…’ this is what Microsoft’s Copilot told me when I asked it about this short story, hence, it would be better to ask your version of AI assistant

 

If you choose to continue here, for whatever reason, you will not get the accurate, short, comprehensive, to the point answers, instead, this is going off on a tangent, due to the association I made in my mind between ghosts, and the experience I have had not with the apparitions, but with some kind of ‘spiritism’

I have never seen a ghost, although there has been the odd UFO, one near the Danube, maybe another on top of the Clabucet, but we have met an artist that was into those outré experiences, invoking the unseen, maybe the undead

 

Hence, this is moving on to that, nothing to do with A Haunted House, which is better summarized, explained by Copilot or some other version of AI, the encounter with this artist was a landmark, for it took place in a very agitated period, at the time when the miners came down to Bucharest, something like January 6, 2021

However, while the MAGA people, the stupid republicans call those terrorists that have occupied Congress patriots, tourists, which means you have tens of millions of deranged, or just brain-dead Americans, here we know that the insurrectionists were just that, cave men called to bring down democracy

 

To think that America used to be a model for us, and the other emerging democracies, coming out of the dark age of communism or some other equally ghastly calamity, and now we are doing better, I mean we have a president that is ten thousand times better than what they seem to be getting in November, Orange Jesus

This convicted felon has two chances out of three, and according to the best source in the world, The Economist, to become the most powerful man in the world, now tell me, what does it say about our planet, if we have ‘evolved, progressed’ to the point where a sick crook will dominate humanity for the next four years

 

He is voted by evangelicals – now, I was flirting with faith, considering that sublime thinkers like Flannery O’Connor  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/06/a-circle-in-fire-by-flannery-oconnor-i.html are religious, but how can this be, I fall back on the well known ‘how could the Almighty allow for this to happen?

 

Yes, there is the answer that ‘God works in mysterious ways’, indeed, the faithful choose this idiot because they say that the work of the Omniscient is promoted by this vile satanist, and they indicate the Supreme Court, his picks, and the actions against abortion, which is what the fundamentalists want, guns and babies

Albeit the latter kill the former and that is an oxymoron, moving on, this is a more complex issue, many will just opt to have lower taxes, and this is why they support this moron – one of the latest news about the fool is that he addressed rich folks and said they should give a billion to have him re-elected, because they will gain

 

Since his future tax cuts will make them richer, they have to fork out now, and get his campaign all the money in the world, so that he wins, he had other crazy ideas – after all, this is a source of infinite craziness – such as abolish income tax, and then rely only on the tariffs he wants to impose on all the world

Then we have these attacks on Biden, that he is old and has lost it – partly true, but look to the alternative, and Biden is a saint, Zeus, a luminary, super hero when set against the other candidate – ignoring the avalanche of shit that comes from the ‘very stable genius’ aka Orange Felon, who forgets all the time

 

The other day, he went on about the cognitive test that he ‘aced’, when he was in the White House and the official doctor had him take it, the problem is that that doctor was into peddling drugs when he was working there, and then he lied about the weight, and to make it clear, Trump forgot his name, what a wonderful memory, right?

When he was visited by Tim Cook, he called him Tim Apple, he said United Shtates instead of US, kept calling Nancy Pelosi Nicky Haley, I mean this is a disaster and a child who is five and sane could see, what the hell is happening there?

 

It makes me think of this comedy act, which takes a different look at If https://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/if-by-rudyard-kipling-one-of-most.html one of the most famous poems by Rudyard Kipling

‘If you can keep your head, when all the others are losing theirs…’ words to that effect, which the comedian turns upside down and says something to the effect of ‘if all around you say this thing, and you see it the other way, you should have your head examined’, so which is it, the members of the cult of Orange Jesus are right?

Or is it me?

I think I know the truth, vote with Biden!

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with 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

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

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 Hermitage and other works

 

‘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.”