The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton The story is based on an actual event, the Great Gold Robbery which took place on 15 May 1855, only this note will not be much (if at all) concerned with that, let me first advertise my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html Edward Pierce versus Orange Woland

 

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton The story is based on an actual event, the Great Gold Robbery which took place on 15 May 1855, only this note will not be much (if at all) concerned with that, let me first advertise my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

Edward Pierce versus Orange Woland

 

 

8 out of 10

 

Edward Pierce, was a member of London's high society, but also secretly he was a master thief. ‘He plans to steal a monthly shipment of gold from the London to Folkestone train which is meant as payment for British troops fighting in the Crimean War.’

 

This was acclaimed as a classic adventure, and I found it entertaining alright, not overwhelming though, what is interesting to me is the parallel with the Confidence Man https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html who is at the top of high society

Edward Pierce used his position to get to the keys – pretending to be interested in the daughter of the bank’s president, using his accomplice to impersonate a courtesan, to get the second key, all cunning and cheating

 

-          But this is peanuts when compared with the big scoundrel of our age

 

Steve Martin and Michael Caine were amusing in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/dirty-rotten-scoundrels-with-michael.html but it is different with those two cases

 

-          Edward Pierce was a robber and Orange Woland is a corrupt leader of the free world

 

The latter is way more dangerous and corrupt, he just had a dinner with those who line his pockets, buying crypto, aka corrupto currency from this ghoul, who is using the once prestigious office to get rich through selling influence

 

-          Pathetic, and once specific to third world places, where a Ceausescu would rule

 

You could see by now that I am ranting on what upsets me https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-trump-tapes-by-bob-woodward-author.html and left for good The Train Robbery

In fact, these are tense days, I will find soon, today or maybe tomorrow, the situation at the company where I am a junior partner, but what I have heard already is not positive, we may have to find other means

 

-          Like robbing trains, or becoming a politician, the Orange Woland model is popular

 

And populist.

For the first couple of months of the year, we have had a loss of one hundred thousand – I don’t even know if it in our local currency, whichever it is, it is bad – and that is due to this high price for gas, what with the Russian invasion and all

 

To cap it all, I have to engage in the most practiced game, from the psychology classic Games People Play  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html and that is If It Weren’t For You

 

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…’