The Counting House by Ivan Turgenev is one of the stories in The Sportsman’s Notebook, which is ranked 895th on The Greatest Books of All Time site; hundreds of these books are reviewed on my blog, where the best thing you can find would be https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html - 9 out of 10

 

The Counting House by Ivan Turgenev is one of the stories in The Sportsman’s Notebook, which is ranked 895th on The Greatest Books of All Time site; hundreds of these books are reviewed on my blog, where the best thing you can find would be https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

9 out of 10

 

 

 

Intellectuals https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html is a fantastic book by Paul Johnson in which you find memorable aspects about the lives of Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the chapter concerning Tolstoy makes Ivan Turgenev look splendid

 

While Tolstoy had this very dark side, his friend, Turgenev was so munificent, especially when the two would be compared, the former would not talk or write to the latter, after they had had a spat, and even when his former pal was dying, the resenting, great novelist would not accept a reconciliation, something I find reprehensible

Fathers and Sons https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/fathers-and-sons-by-ivan-turgenev-is.html is acclaimed as the best chef d’oeuvre of Ivan Turgenev, and it is included on the Greatest 100 Books of All Time list

 

In my view, the stories from The Sportsman’s Notebook relate to Fathers and Sons, they seem to have made the fabric of the longer work, which is memorable from a few points of view, one of them would be the character of Bazarov, the ultimate nihilist, who gets to change his views somewhat, or I think he might

Bazarov dies – no spoiler alert would be needed, right, for I am not saying what happens at the end of this story, which I could, for it has no reviews, and most likely, very few future readers, not those who (do not) read these lines anyway – and towards the end of his life, his adamant positions shift, just like I see with myself

 

He even fights a duel, because he acts in an inappropriate manner with the wife of his host, kissing her at one point, after all, he rejects everything, Michelangelo is nothing to him and the nihilists that I see as the replicas of the MAGA crowd today, members of a cult that is creating havoc in the world, just now, and over the past week

Granted, Bazarov was one thousand times above this Orange Moron who is ‘the leader of the free world’, and will be for another god damn four years, if the shit will not hit the fan, but there are parallels, they do not respect, well, anything, this ‘very stable genius’ raised to the top wants Canada to be part of the US

 

-          Along with Greenland, Gaza, Panama and who knows what else, oh, and 500 billion worth of ‘raw earth’ – as the idiot kept calling it, instead of rare – from Ukraine, because he thinks 120 equals 500, and why not use extortion?

 

Influence https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/influence-by-robert-cialdini.html is a quintessential psychology book by Robert Cialdini, and one of the principles explained there is Respect for Authority, experiments have shown what vile acts we can do, the Milgram experiment demonstrates that

Mass suicides have happened because such mad leaders can convince followers to kill themselves, and in a way, we see that the stock market crashed, stocks have tumbled and the world is almost helpless against this crazy idiot, waving his tariffs around, just like a silly boy who has a sword and is using it against innocents

 

Bazarov and his nihilists rejected art and all, but these MAGA fools have turned against allies, they keep pushing against Canada, the EU, humiliating a war hero, Zelensky, while embracing the murderous dictator, Putin

 

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 https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html – 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…’

 

 

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