Boys’ Weeklies by George Orwell is the 8th among The Essays, a work you find in the 917th place on The Greatest Books of All time site, where seats change, according to the whims of the algorithm, although Nineteen Eighty Four may climb down from the astounding 6th position, and Animal Farm from the 54th, but probably not by much, unless of course, some critics are right and The Essays will be ever more prominent, while the rest of the Orwell magnum opera will lose significance – what I add is surely insignificant, but the essays are wonderful https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html in opposition, this link will show just how facetious the under signed could be, alas

 

Boys’ Weeklies by George Orwell is the 8th among The Essays, a work you find in the 917th place on The Greatest Books of All time site, where seats change, according to the whims of the algorithm, although Nineteen Eighty Four may climb down from the astounding 6th position, and Animal Farm from the 54th, but probably not by much, unless of course, some critics are right and The Essays will be ever more prominent, while the rest of the Orwell magnum opera will lose significance – what I add is surely insignificant, but the essays are wonderful https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html in opposition, this link will show just how facetious the under signed could be, alas

 

 

8 out of 10

 

Boys’ Weeklies could not be compared with Animal Farm https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/08/animal-farm-by-george-orwell-one-of.html but overall, the Essays are magnificent

 

It may also be a case of lowered expectations, I have experienced the opposite lately, coming back to a book that made me ecstatic, only to wonder why all that elation, in the first place, the answer could be a different age

Marcel Proust https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/le-temps-retrouve-by-marcel-proust.html is my favorite writer, and he writes that we become a different person, and this explains why we do not see how we could have felt such intense love for someone, who does not seem to have any appeal, now that we are someone else

 

To end with Boys’ weeklies already, the subject has no relevance today, there is Orwell himself, the way he writes, the fact that he introduces other topics, but per se, these publications belong to history, the past, unfortunately

That regret refers to the fact that with those, we have seen disappear newspapers – I still read The Economist, it has been a forty yearlong pleasure – such as Newsweek, which is mentioned in my standard ending

 

As I say again a few lines from here, I have taken part in the 1989 Revolution that deposed Ceausescu, and very proud I am, hence the repletion, you hear me here, and then again – obviously, this is also a spoiler alert

During those days, I have changed the life of one man, a former high school colleague, met in the subway, sometime in the last days of December 1989 – the fall of the regime had already taken place on December 22nd

 

I had protested with others, in the Roman Square, led by the hero and thespian Andrei Finti, but in the next days, I met with The Newsweek correspondent – I used to remember his name, Meier I think it was – near The University

Then, as an irony, I started working for their competition, TIME Magazine, and here I remember the name James Wilde, and got paid about $50 per day, a small fortune in those days – AT&T would pay only $250 per month, years later, and demand work on the Navy ships in the BLACK Sea, and a lot more than that

 

As I saw this fella, Mihai Radu, in the metro, I went and told him he must come at The Intercontinental, because there was so much money (relative to the dire state of the place back then, in relative terms, we have surpassed Japan in the meantime) to be made, but he was aghast and said there is no way in hell he would do that

Only a crazy human being would go where they shoot and kill people – that was the impression, albeit we would find that not many passed away, and then no terrorists would be found in the flesh- and he would never do that

 

Only he did: after some of my ‘persuasive’ talk, quite a lot really, he did change his mind, would come the next day and start working for The Times – London one – and then that would become his career, a newspaper man for The Boys’ weeklies and dailies I gather…

 

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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