weekend in the heart of Ferentari, without having to [queue][queue]
with all the unwashed orcs.
+Yes, the locals have the great quality of not being fucked in the
+head, but then again so do the ones from Alba and [Cluj][klausenhead],
+and I suspect all over the country with the exception of Bucharest and
+a few other godforsaken towns. At the same time, there's nothing of
+consequence to discuss with said locals, all they do is yammer about
+how they and their sons went to work in Germany and bought shiny cars
+on credit. Yes, I did get to see that traditional skirt once, and I
+did get to eat that traditional bulz once, but other than that there
+was... nothing there of interest. I even attempted to visit one of the
+Vișeuan museums and it was closed, what. Not like anyone else would be
+interested[^1].
+
Anyway, back to the outskirts of Vișeu de Sus, rural settings have
this great advantage of readily available apple factories in other
people's gardens:
Above: the Horses' Waterfall and canyon near Borșa. Below: views from
the same canyon and mountain. As the saying goes: frumoasă țară, păcat
-că-i locuită, i.e. beautiful country, too bad it's inhabited.
+că-i locuită -- i.e. beautiful country, too bad it's inhabited.
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-05.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-05-thumb.png"> </a>
Above: choo-choo! along the Vaser goes the cocăniță. Below, we head
straight to the Marmatian Sziget, where some people made a museum, the
-Memorial of the Victims of Communism etcaetera TODO troll.
+Memorial of the Victims of Communism etcaetera. I shan't bother to
+review this, for the simple fact that [I've done it
+before][sibiu-museum]; and that if I did it again, the people involved
+(Ana Blandiana or whoever oversees the project) wouldn't read it
+anyway; and thus fuck them, let them burn next time the state cuts the
+funds they feed on.
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-18.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-18-thumb.png"> </a>
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-19.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-19-thumb.png"> </a>
+Sorry for the crappy photo, it's worth posting nevertheless. Long
+story short, this is where I found out how Iuliu Maniu
+[unhappened][unhappen]. So then kids, do you now see why "communism
+was bad, mkay"? It wasn't bad because "people got deported and
+killed", people get raped and they eventually die all the time and in
+all the places. It was bad because the fuckers who enacted it were
+convinced that historical reality will emerge from the precious
+prepuce of their [twisted thought][july-theses] -- which it didn't,
+which is how today everyone knows Iuliu Maniu wasn't "without
+occupation", while nobody gives two shits about Teohari Georgescu or
+whomever.
+
+Below: late '80s revolutionary stuff from... Hungary!
+
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-20.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-20-thumb.png"> </a>
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-22.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-22-thumb.png"> </a>
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-23.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-23-thumb.png"> </a>
+Above: so to reiterate, communism wasn't bad because of the
+torture. You too might someday end up in a prison, beaten daily and
+without anything to call your own; and if you're smart enough, you'll
+be able to build your own means of intellectual refuge, and in the
+process learn to value the fleeting experience of life.
+
+I've struggled for twenty minutes to get a proper thumbnail out of the
+following photo, but I couldn't, so I'll just link to it
+[here](/uploads/2019/08/maramures-23.png). It represents a tulnic, a
+musical instrument that (as far as I know) originates from the Western
+Carpathian Mountains, in the country of the so-called "moți", a
+special sort of people, după vorbă, după port. But the space is too
+short for this discussion, so I'll leave it for another time.
+
+Below: communist vintage artifacts, preserved here mostly to feed my
+own childhood nostalgia. Yes, I had a radio exactly like that one,
+grandma had that exact TV, dad used to smoke BT and so on.
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-24.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-24-thumb.png"> </a>
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-26.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-26-thumb.png"> </a>
+Above: abstract art. Not sure what it's supposed to mean, but the
+twisted perspective along with the lighting and the AC socket create
+quite the atmosphere, wouldn't you say? David Lynch would be proud of
+me now.
+
+Below: concrete art.
+
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-27.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-27-thumb.png"> </a>
+In what is now probably becoming [tradition][worker-culture], I shall
+leave the reader to ponder the following piece, from somewhere else:
+
<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-28.png"> <img align="middle"
class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-28-thumb.png"> </a>
+[^1]: Speaking of which, I found this very neat [etymological
+ dictionary][dict-etimo] documenting places from Maramureș, but not
+ only that. You can find info about the people's names... which
+ brings me back to [that old story][mangalia].
+
+ I had suspected for some time the "mogoșan" doesn't come from
+ Sibiu, but from Maramureș, given the similarity with its paronym,
+ "moroșan" -- and yes, people often confuse that part of my
+ name. And so, look:
+
+ > Mogoșești
+ >
+ > Zonare: Sat aparținător de comuna Satulung, zona Chioar, Zona
+ > Metropolitană Baia Mare, regiunea Transilvania (de
+ > Nord). Localizare: Localitate situată în depresiunea Baia Mare,
+ > în lunca Someșului, între Hideaga și Pribilești, la 2 kilometri
+ > nord-vest de Satulung; zonă de câmpie. Populație: 805 locuitori
+ > (în 2011). Dialect: subdialect crișean. Numele comun al
+ > locuitorilor: mogoșean, -ă, mogoșeni, -e / mogoșeancă,
+ > mogoșence. Porecla locuitorilor: porci. Nume de familie
+ > frecvente în localitate: Buie, Coste. Atestare documentară: 1566
+ > (Suciu). Denumiri (a.d.): 1566 Maghafalw, Mogosfalwa (Satul lui
+ > Mogoș), 1603 Mogosfalva, 1603 Magosfalu, Mogosest, Magosfalwa,
+ > 1750 Mogosesty, 1760 Magasfalva seu Mogosesty, 1800 Magosfalva,
+ > Mogoșești, 1850 Mogosestyi, 1854 Magosfalva, Magoșești (Suciu,
+ > 1967); 1909-1919 Mogoșești, Magosfalu (Moldovan,
+ > Togan). Localități cu nume identice sau ase-mănătoare: Mogoșești
+ > (Argeș, Dâmbovița, Dolj, Iași, Ilfov, Olt, Vâlcea),
+ > Mogoșești-Siret (Iași), Mogoșoaia (București) (Indicator, 1974).
+ >
+ > Etimologie: Din n. grup mogoșești < n.fam. Mogoș + suf. -ești. ■
+ > Denumirea satului este derivată dintr-un nume de persoană Mogoș,
+ > care provine din magh. mogos, mogus, magos, magas „înalt" (DOR:
+ > 324), de unde apelativul rom. mogoș „înalt" (Iordan,
+ > 1983). Numele s-a dezvoltat probabil dintr-o poreclă sau
+ > supranume. În județul Maramureș, sunt 24 de per-soane cu numele
+ > de familie Mogoș, respectiv 16 persoane cu numele Mogos
+ > (cf. DFN, 2007). Mogoș putea fi întemeietorul satului, deoarece
+ > în documente nu apare o altă denumire alternativă și, în plus,
+ > forma rom. Mogoșești e consemnată încă de la începutul secolului
+ > al XVII-lea. În apropiere de Baia Mare există un toponim cu
+ > numele Mogoșa, munte, a cărui nume putem bănui că s-a format din
+ > apelativul românesc mogoș, cu art. encl. -a. După Frățilă,
+ > toponimul ar putea proveni din antroponimul Moga (vezi atestarea
+ > din 1566, Maghafalw), derivat su suf. -oș.
+
+ So now the internets know that I'm a pig.
+
[maramu]: http://trilema.com/2014/maramu/
[btcbase-1922407]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-07-14#1922407
[maximum-quickness]: /posts/y05/08d-sinaia.html#selection-245.34-249.16
[btcbase-1918305]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-16#1918305
[queue]: http://trilema.com/2019/oslo-that-unredeemably-sad-shithole/#footnote_2_84244
+[klausenhead]: /posts/y05/07d-klausenburg.html#selection-169.258-169.423
+[dict-etimo]: http://archive.is/mK82F
+[mangalia]: /posts/y05/08e-mangalia.html#fn1
+[sibiu-museum]: /posts/y05/07d-klausenburg.html#selection-296.0-296.3
+[unhappen]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=unhappen
+[july-theses]: /posts/y03/05a-july-theses.html
+[worker-culture]: /posts/y05/08e-mangalia.html#selection-268.0-268.3
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