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

 

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, unless they were all about coitus, private parts and the like – and then one of the nuns discovers the pleasures of sex with him, and another, all the way up to the mother superior, who confiscates the man, who is now desperate to escape

 

Then there is the obvious, one could not say well, stories about sex, it does not matter if it is Sandra Brown, or some unknown – I think I will insert a recent experience of mine, in the following lines – it has to be exquisite, elevated – no matter the subject, it depends on who talks, what he, she they say and how they do it

Nevertheless, because sex is such a focusing, concentrating topic that it can overshadow, eliminate any other element – it does tend to work this for this reader, and it happened again, rather recently, despite the upcoming anniversary of a golden age, which now that I write this, I see that it is not the biological one, I will be 28 soon, really!

 

Anais Nin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/la-cloche-de-verre-by-anais-nin-in.html is celebrated as one of the fantastic women writers, and novelists in general, her Delta of Venus is included on the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list and it has had a massive success, and yet, it is so erotic I just tremble now

It is a joke, but that notwithstanding, you find in there all kinds of sexual intercourse, take The Hungarian Adventurer, he is a sort of modern Cassanova, who marries for money, he falls for a Brazilian dancer, who performs, but then goes into the audience and sucks men’s penises, even now, I am a bit wondering, did I read that?

And yes, I did!

 

The man moves to Rome, where he plays with the daughters of the Spanish ambassador, who are about ten, maybe twelve, or eight, they are children nonetheless, and he has them playing, riding on him, as he has a morning erection, rubs against them, has orgasm and tell me this, how would we rate this as grand literature?

The ideas of the members of the Orange Jesus aka republicans and others like them, in other lands, are absurd, disgusting and they represent the other extreme, they want books to be burnt, eliminated, and you have that excess, but I am puzzled by this, I mean just like with Giovanni Boccaccio, there is so much to enjoy

 

And Mallorca, by Anais Nin has some wonderful descriptions, they meet in the sea, under the moonlight, and the waves, seduction, attraction, serenity, the game within https://realini.blogspot.com/2013/09/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html only there is also the incest we have within

It is just a discussion, it is not about eliminating Oedipus Rex https://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/oedipus-rex-by-sophocles-and-adapted-by.html which is another fundamental chef d’oeuvre incidentally, we have to know about this, learn the facts, and Oedipus is the epitome of the magnum opera

 

The formula for the best drama says that the tragedy must include a revelation, but also a reversal, this from no other than Aristotle https://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/aristotle-in-ninety-minutes-by-paul.html and Oedipus has both, happening at the same time, the king finds he has killed his father and married his mother

Now for my little happening, of the other day, because by now, nobody is still on this page, and if they are, well, you should have seen it coming – I use services of sex workers – the spouse is not interested in yours truly, hence the assurance that no way in hell she would find this out from here – and there was an interesting occurrence

 

I talked to this amusing, positive, friendly fellow from…Chile, and came to the subject of escorts, he sent me two links with ads, and I did the same, not only that, I called one of the workers and established some encounter, she gave the address, only once there, it proved she did not know the actual numbers and details

She said across the street, what is that, then with Pizza Hut as reference, I found a couple of entrances, where she gives me the wrong, so I keep calling 27, with no effect, then she comes down to fetch me, but I see she is at the next door, so I had to instruct her to look above, and read what number is there, and it goes on…

She had the television loud and with some annoying program, so I see turn down the volume, and seeing the result, better turn it off, and she says no, and will be looking at the set, she started felatio, but I say what, all dressed, and she only takes the top, and nothing else, it was surreal, even if I know that I am lucky I do not live in Sweden, where the client faces charges…

 

 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.”