Socialism and The Intellectuals by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, my favorite writer, along with Marcel Proust – more than twirty reviews on the magnum opera of this fantastic author, novels and short stories are posted on my blogs, together with more than five thousand notes on The Greatest Books of All Time, and films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time, and here is the link https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html if you care to travel there

 

Socialism and The Intellectuals by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, my favorite writer, along with Marcel Proust – more than twirty reviews on the magnum opera of this fantastic author, novels and short stories are posted on my blogs, together with more than five thousand notes on The Greatest Books of All Time, and films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time, and here is the link https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html if you care to travel there

 

 

9 out of 10

 

Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/take-girl-like-you-by-kingsley-amis-one.html was considered the best writer of humor in the second part of the last century, and I agree with that

 

-          Furthermore, I see him as the best over all

 

Evidently, there are others, such as Evelyn Waugh – I have just finished reading for the second time, or was it the third, Decline and Fall https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/decline-and-fall-by-evelyn-waugh.html

 

“Waugh very silly fellow he was. One first class cunt could have written the 'funny' parts of S of Honor and the whole of Behead. More and more I think of him as a chap who wrote one marvelous book (D&F) then WENT OFF having joined the Catholic Ch. Woman I met who knew him a bit said it wasn't so much his rudeness that stuck in your craw as his buttering up dukes and marquises, praising their marvelous houses and beautiful gardens, lovely daughters & c. He did that to her when she was married to one, then stopped it when she stopped being…”

The above is what Kingsley Amis wrote in one of his letters https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-letters-of-kingsley-amis-edited-by.html about Evelyn Waugh

 

Now about Socialism and The Intellectuals – Amis has been a man with leftist views when he was young, reminding one of that joke ‘who is not a lefty or commie when young has no heart, who is still a commie when old has no brains’

But in his ‘maturity’, the novelist, poet, essays veered to the right, not the extreme right, but he changed his views, writing about having dinner with Margaret Thatcher aka The Iron Lady and talking about Russian Hide and Seek

 

 

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/russian-hide-and-seek-by-kingsley-amis.html this is a Science Fiction narrative, in which the Russians would occupy Britain, and many other places, ion the future

Indeed, in the meantime, Putin & co have invaded Ukraine, and we will have to see what the Orange Russian asset will give them on Friday, when he meets and talks about land swapping, as if he owns those territories…

 

The Iron Lady was not keen on this scenario, with Russians in control of the UK, so she said Kinglsey Amis needs to get a different crystal ball – having lived under Ceausescu, I could not agree more, I am of the right

However, not of the sick right that is taking hold in the USA – the crazy MAGA cult – and in other places, but I did take part in the Revolution that deposed and then killed Ceausescu and his consort, the link is in the lines down here

Intellectuals https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html by Paul Johnson explains so  much about this category, looking at luminaries like Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henrik Ibsen and others

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, 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 benefits 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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