Rudyard Kipling by George Orwell is the fourteenth of The Essays that you find in the 917th place on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where Nineteen Eighty Four is sixth, although I was reading in The Economist that The Da Vinci code is the twelfth best known work or thereabouts, and Nineteen Eighty Four is 81st, close to Jane Eyre, in other words, a silly work is popular and magnum opera are becoming irrelevant, why wonder the free world has Orange Woland at the top? Nevertheless, you find more than five thousand reviews of masterpieces from this GOAT and other lists, along with films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

Rudyard Kipling by George Orwell is the fourteenth of The Essays that you find in the 917th place on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where Nineteen Eighty Four is sixth, although I was reading in The Economist that The Da Vinci code is the twelfth best known work or thereabouts, and Nineteen Eighty Four is 81st, close to Jane Eyre, in other words, a silly work is popular and magnum opera are becoming irrelevant, why wonder the free world has Orange Woland at the top? Nevertheless, you find more than five thousand reviews of masterpieces from this GOAT and other lists, along with films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

 

9 out of 10

 

If https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/if-by-rudyard-kipling-one-of-most.html by Rudyard Kipling is one of my favorite poems, albeit I have seen a comedian take it and give it a different, mirthful meaning

 

The thespian gave some quotes from If: ‘If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…’ and concluded that if this is the case, then you should have your head examined, which is both jesting and some good advice, unless of course, those around you are MAGA, which mans they are crazy, or perverse

I assume nobody is reading this far into the note – people do not read the chefs d’oeuvre, so why would they bother with this nonsense, I hope you are not still here, for if you were, it does not say good things about you…nor about me, for that matter – so maybe I can say what I think about this orange ghoul with impunity

 

Last time around, I was kicked off Goodreads, and I suspect that some of the MAGA folks flagged me for the disdain I have for this Goodfella https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/goodfellas-based-on-book-by-nicholas.html he is not even funny -well, he is ridiculous – the way Joe Pesci was in that classic scene

I remember I liked Kim, though I was not overwhelmed by it, and for some reason I do not find my review of this, either it was Lost (In Translation) or maybe the lack of exuberance, elation made me ‘forget about it’, in the words of Donnie Brasco, actually, that was the manner in which the mobsters talked in the movie

 

There is also The Jungle Book, which enthused, mesmerized me as a child, but adapted for the big screen by Disney, with excellent music, Baloo, the great, if vile tiger, the monkeys that kidnap the poor human child, Bagheera, the black panther, all with exquisite humor, an experience that I see has stayed with me to this day

Here is the note on one of the stories related to The Jungle Book, where Mowgli is the hero and then we have the brothers in here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/mowglis-brothers-by-rudyard-kipling.html

 

Rudyard Kipling appears to have been an ‘imperialist’, as described and criticized by George Orwell, the latter was vehemently against the empire, he writes that ‘Kipling is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language’ and one of those is ‘white man’s burden’, which should be changed to the opposite

The British in India disliked Kipling, they seem to have thought he is of mixed race, due to the fact that he was quite dark, and presumably, he did not describe things as they were, Orwell changes a few lines of Kipling to show how much better they sound

 

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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