drafts, timisoara: Almost done, need to process the photos

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 ---
 postid: 08f
 title: Temeschwar
-date: May 10, 2019
+date: May 11, 2019
 author: Lucian Mogoșanu
 tags: in-the-flesh
 ---
 
 <p style="text-align: right">*Now with moar bigger, longer and uncutter.*</p>
 
-Moving (that is, our fine asses) from the Ottoman slash Phanariot
-outskirts of the heart of Bükreş to the Österreichien outskirts of
-Темишвар took only a tad over ten hours, via post-modern[^1] CFR. Below,
-the reader can admire a view of the town as seen when arriving from all
-directions towards the centre -- or the other way around, whichever you
-prefer.
+Moving (that is, our fine asses) from the Ottoman slash Phanariote
+outskirts of the heart of [Bükreş][bucharest] to the
+[Österreich][austria]-Ungarischen outskirts of Темишвар took only a tad
+over ten hours, via post-modern[^1] CFR. Below, the reader can admire a
+view of the town as seen when arriving from all directions towards the
+centre -- or the other way around, whichever you prefer.
 
 TODO: DSC_0332
 
@@ -85,17 +85,104 @@ above being the prologue.
 
 TODO: DSC_0260
 
-TOADD: stuff written on walls
+TODO: DSC_0329
 
-TOADD: architecture
+Above: we get lost in your beautiful. Below: Ion Sulea.
 
-TOADD: trams
+TODO: DSC_0453
 
-TOADD: doors
+TODO: DSC_0454
 
-TOADD: statuettes
+Above: eyes; and hands. Below: surreal stuff.
 
-OUTRO: challange
+TODO: DSC_0460
+
+TODO: DSC_0567
+
+TODO: DSC_0553
+
+Above: place for sighing. Below: weird stuff.
+
+TODO: DSC_0591
+
+Up next: we take a look at the variety of architectural designs
+Timișoara has on display. Below: a church of sorts.
+
+TODO: DSC_0268
+
+TODO: DSC_0280
+
+TODO: DSC_0456
+
+Above: just some buildings, right? Below: narațiune în râmă.
+
+TODO: DSC_0513
+
+TODO: DSC_0514
+
+Above: tune in to 88.8 FM! Below: one hell of a coloured building.
+
+TODO: DSC_0540
+
+Now, for a short intermission -- below, rare sighting of a
+tram. Timișoara public transportation is, much like the one in
+Bucharest, destined entirely to locals[^2] and entirely absent when you
+actually need it. Fortunately for whoever's visiting, the town's
+walkable when they're not in a hurry, and when they are there are taxis
+aplenty.
+
+TODO: DSC_0563
+
+Up next: the doors. Well, I mean, not *the* doors, but certainly the
+ones I've photographed. Below: a door leading into thin air.
+
+TODO: DSC_0509
+
+TODO: DSC_0566
+
+Above: door leading into nameless alley. Below: someone's being a
+smart-ass.
+
+TODO: DSC_0583
+
+TODO: DSC_0597
+
+Above: a tough one. Up next: statuettes, one more peculiar than the
+other. Below: she-wolf with baby human wolflings, looking at a tree.
+
+TODO: DSC_0271
+
+TODO: DSC_0511
+
+Above, one of the baby wolflings, now grown into a man, leading his
+people, the Romanians, to great success! Below: Adam, holding his
+favourite woman; followed by Eve and her favourite snake.
+
+TODO: DSC_0326
+
+TODO: DSC_0537
+
+TODO: DSC_0524
+
+Above: child, accompanied by manouche jazz orchestra. Below: "I'm
+[the slime][the-slime] oozing out of your TV set".
+
+TODO: DSC_0547
+
+TODO: DSC_0586
+
+Above: I've no fuckin' idea.
+
+Below, an epilogue: nonchallange.
+
+TODO: DSC_0622
+
+Just in case you're thinking this was the actual "uncut" version, I'll
+have you know that the almost fifty photos above were selected out of a
+set of more than three hundred. This being said, I'm pretty sure that I
+haven't seen quite the half of it, and this doesn't even include the
+things I've seen and haven't photographed, such as the stuff at the Art
+Museum. But I'm already out of space, so until next time...
 
 [^1]: "Post-modern" here means the following: modernity being over, then
     so are its means and fundamental characteristics, and thusly so are
@@ -115,8 +202,19 @@ OUTRO: challange
     big town in Romania, as far as Romanian towns go) other than by
     plane, give me a good slapping.
 
+[^2]: How else do you explain the facts that a. tickets are only sold as
+    electronic cards that b. can only be purchased using a valid
+    national ID; c. aren't provided upfront, but after a bunch of days;
+    and d. are only available at one of a few select locations that
+    e.g. don't include the train station.
+
+    Of course, tickets *aren't* available for purchase in the tram
+    itself, because who the fuck would want to do that.
+
+[bucharest]: /posts/y05/07f-bucharest-ii.html
 [sinaia-tren]: /posts/y05/08d-sinaia.html#selection-282.0-282.3
 [btcbase-1911470]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-06#1911470
 [allcomers]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=allcomers
 [democracy]: http://trilema.com/2016/sensitivity-human-rights-democracy/
-[dictionar-banacean]: http://trilema.com/2019/diccionariul-banacean-de-lucruri-fapte-si-locuri-imdepartate-si-inportante/
+[the-slime]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-sREpqDiUo
+[austria]: http://trilema.com/2019/diccionariul-banacean-de-lucruri-fapte-si-locuri-imdepartate-si-inportante/#selection-50.0-50.1