La Cipolla aka The Onion by Aldo Nicolaj - 8 out of 10

 

La Cipolla aka The Onion by Aldo Nicolaj

 

8 out of 10

 

 

Aldo Nicolaj has only two works on Goodreads, La Cipolla aka The Onion and The World of Water, the former has a grand total of two reviews to its name, with zero reviews and the latter has no rating, and ditto for notes, hence I thought I might bless the name with the first notice, however irrelevant this will be and unrelated

 

Last night, they had Hamlet in Sos Picant aka Hamlet in Spicy Sauce, by Aldo Nicolaj, albeit this is non existent on the site, in the old days, I could introduce some entry, but now, I have to be a librarian or something, which in some ways sounds good, you could not have any unauthorized moron play with the site

Or could you?

 

Games People Play is a psychology classic https://realini.blogspot.com/2013/09/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html by Eric Berne, and yes, people play on Goodreads – but let me introduce a spoiler alert, before I set myself free and just focus on the topic I have in mind now, the elections taking place tomorrow

I am celebrating the fact that I am number One!

 

On Goodreads, for my territory, where I moved, again, to the top spot, only in the number one reviewer sense, which means I run the marathon with notes, I keep writing – nonsense, and here is the evidence – but I try, like with the physical runs, it is important to take part, not the spot you land on, how good your lines are

Besides, it is a good thing that a real worker is recompensed, at least for now, since we had a fraud at the ‘top of the ticket’, a fella who just poured a few hundred ‘reviews’ per…day!

 

I mean, how could they let that happen, he was not really writing anything, just copy paste a couple of lines from the net, and bingo, this is a review and then he gets to be the top performer, at least the profile said so

Even when notified, the site did nothing

 

Let us move to something more serious, which is what happens in America, and then to the world as a consequence, after they put Hamlet in Hot Sauce tomorrow, the title of the play was superb, I thought, bizarre

 

Also a good description of what we have now, no longer the serious Hamlet https://realini.blogspot.com/2014/04/hamlet-by-william-shakespeare.html but something weird, for we live in the era of The Orange Jesus, no longer the ‘real’ prophet, but a sort of Chosen replacement, reincarnation of Cyrus

Aat least this is what his supporters claim, just like in the Bible that Cyrus saved the Jews, I have read how, but no longer know, although he was a pagan, not an Hebrew anyway, so this fellow that has committed every sin against that list with do not lie, something with the neighbor’s wife, and so on, will just save us all

 

Hard, impossible to believe?

Absolutely!

 

But hey, the ways of God are unknown, they retort, and look at the (fucking obnoxious I say) three Supreme justices he has named, how they brought abortion to an abrupt end in so many states, and thus so many ‘unborn babies’ are saved now, what? A few mothers die because they are denied care? Never mind that!

This is indeed a con artist, The Confidence Man https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/09/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html as described by the sublime Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, and a commentator on CNN, where she explains often reactions of the Orange Fool, what he may be thinking

 

One of the ‘strong’ arguments for supporters of the Orange Plague is that he is ‘good on the economy’, in fact we were discussing this earlier, at the sauna downtown, and it is such a fallacy, one of those false things, a myth, because the fellow had some achievements, but otherwise, he was basically a fraud, judged as such

He was not paying contractors, he is infamous for not paying, bankrupted casinos and other businesses, when as they say ‘the house always wins’, he was going at the banks to get loans, and pretended he has so much, pretending his apartment is three times its actual size, the judge highlighted that, also emphasizing that he is in real estate, he could not lie (well, he can, always) and say it is a honest mistake, he ignores the business

 

Then he would claim he has nothing, or close to it, for tax purposes, and yes, many, most businesses do that – Google, Apple and the rest parked their incomes, or something in Ireland, so that they save billions, but that was legal, now Apple was sentenced to pay some billions due – but we are talking of fraud here, this man would not use the correct methods, and stick with that, think of the way he wanted to steal the elections of 2020!

 

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.”