The Taming of The Shrew by William Shakespeare appears on The Greatest Books of All Time site only in the 6562nd place, which will change, if you care to check it, because they use a new algorithm that looks at trends, various other data, this is surprising, seeing as the ‘Bard of Avon’ is celebrated as the Magister Ludi, or maybe he used to be…hundreds of books form this GOAT site and other lists are reviewed on my blog, which you may visit here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

The Taming of The Shrew by William Shakespeare appears on The Greatest Books of All Time site only in the 6562^nd place, which will change, if you care to check it, because they use a new algorithm that looks at trends, various other data, this is surprising, seeing as the ‘Bard of Avon’ is celebrated as the Magister Ludi, or maybe he used to be…hundreds of books form this GOAT site and other lists are reviewed on my blog, which you may visit here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

 

9 out of 10

 

I wonder what John Gottman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html would say of the methods used by Petruchio in his Taming of The Shrew, the latter being Katherina Minola

 

Indeed, the name itself, The Shrew is enough of an insult to make this unpalatable today, at least as a play that could not be written by a contemporary author, unless of course, he is one of the MAGA crowd, which is turning things upside down

I have listened to an interview with Yuval Harari https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/09/21-lessons-for-21st-century-by-yuval.html one of the luminaries of our century, author of great books, Nexus, Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21^st Century

 

Yuval Harai was talking, among other things, about the way Orange Woland aka TACO (a recent nickname, referring to the ‘strategy’ on tariffs, which is Trump Always Chickens Out aka TACO) is ruling the country, and the free world, which is medieval, in the view of the outstanding historian, who was giving examples

Take the manner in which this would be despot deals with treatise, he keeps talking like this: ‘Putin never broke his word with me, Obama signed something, but with me, Putin respected his word’ words to this effect, meaning he does not care about the country, the documents signed by others, it is all about him.

 

The Taming of The Shrew is a good template for what was happening recently between this idiot and the other fool, Elon Musk, in the view of the Fox world, these ‘are two giants, alpha males clashing’, while Jon Stewart was making the accurate point, showing a video of gorillas fighting (in the minds of MAGA), when the real thing was

 

-          Two pussies pushing each other

 

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-by-edward.html is another great work that comes to mind when seeing The Taming of The Shrew, because both have Elisabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in leading roles, The Shrew and Tamer respectively in the adaptation of Shakespeare

In Edward Albee’s wonderful play, the two main characters are married, and yet in intense, frequent conflict, it seems to me as if that is what The Taming of The Shrew looks like in modern times, well, some decades back…

 

-          MAGA rules now, and they have a retrograde mentality

 

Coming back to Yuval Harari, he spoke about the possibility that one of the sons of Trump marries Putin’s daughter, and then they get Crimea as a wedding gift, in the manner of the Middle Ages, yes, it sounds absurd, but then you wouldn’t have imagined the occupation of Congress, without sending anybody to defend it, while now, this vicious monster has the National Guard in California, for some rioting which is nowhere near to what happened on January 6^th 2021, when this TACO had an insurrection going, to steal the elections…

 

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…’