DE DAUMIER-SMITH'S BLUE PERIOD by JD Salinger, author of the magnum opus Catcher in The Rye, which is Fifth on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it also part of other prestigious lists, TIME 100, Modern Library’s Best 100, hundreds of works from those places are reviewed on my blog, which I would be lying if I said you need to check, nevertheless, there it is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html
DE
DAUMIER-SMITH'S BLUE PERIOD by JD Salinger, author of the magnum opus Catcher
in The Rye, which is Fifth on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it also
part of other prestigious lists, TIME 100, Modern Library’s Best 100, hundreds
of works from those places are reviewed on my blog, which I would be lying if I
said you need to check, nevertheless, there it is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html
8 out of 10
De Daumier –
Smith’s Blue Period is one of the Nine Stories, which is 474th on
The Greatest Books of All time site, where Catcher in The Rye is as high as the
fifth place https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/catcher-in-rye-by-jd-salinger-is-number.html it is an absolute chef d’oeuvre
I remembered
for some strange reason the passage where Holden Caulfield has that outré
experience in the hotel, where Maurice, the pimp, pushes the hero to pay for
the services of this young woman he is working with, actually, this was the
wrong description I guess, he makes her have sex with strangers, to get money
It is also a
swindle – every time I refer to crooks, cheaters, the biggest of them all comes
to mind, Confidence Man https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html
Maurice
stated a price, then it turns out that Holden has to pay more, and the whole
thing becomes an extortion, blackmail, and they use the threat of violence
against the vulnerable teenager, that was a smaller Orange Woland, in the form
of Maurice
Humor was
present in Catcher in The Rye, and we have it in De Daumier -Smith’s Blue
Period: ‘The trouble with Picasso, I explained to Mr. Yoshoto as we got out
of the bus, was that he never listened to anybody
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even his closest friends.’
Jean de
Maurier-Smith, Staff Instructor at Les Amis Des Vieux Maltres is the narrator, albeit
he uses an assumed name, claims an artistic past ‘Here I was — a man who had
won three first-prizes, a very close friend of Picasso's (which I actually was
beginning to think I was)’ all this in order to get this job in Canada…
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now
that the US has elected this buffoon, there are tensions between old friends,
Canada and America
There was
this article in The Economist about a place on the border between Canada and
the US, where they used to have a shared library, a cultural center where the
stage is in Canada and the audience sits in the US
Not anymore,
that ghoul who is the Secretary of Homeland security (well, they are all out of
a vaudeville in this administration, starting with the top clown and monster,
all at the same time) came there and talked of
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the
51st state
what a startling, rather unpleasant, to say
the least, coincidence to have this great mind, Salinger, and this pathetic Darth
Vader Vance share the same JD, granted, history will only remember, honor the
author
unless of
course, this Screwtape https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-screwtape-letters-by-c-s-lewis.html gets elected in four years, and then
we are all screwed, if we will have not faced Armageddon by then
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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