+++ /dev/null
----
-postid: 000
-title: Maramureș
-date: August 9, 2019
-author: Lucian Mogoșanu
-tags: in-the-flesh
----
-
-<p style="text-align: right">**Motto**:
-*La casa cu patru fete mor gainile de sete
-si fantana-i [supt parete][maramu].*</p>
-
-So [as I was saying][btcbase-1922407], a month ago this time I was
-travellin' through that old country with tall, "falnici" mountains
-hosting thick, tall, "falnice" woods of beech, fir, oak and other
-beautiful, majestic trees, whom the locals use to build their wooden
-houses in gardens wide as the eye can see, bound by wooden fences with
-great finely-decorated wooden gates, neighbouring small yet so very
-lovely wooden churches and so on and so forth. Anyway, I suck at this
-so I'll let the photos speak in my stead.
-
-Unfortunately for the reader, all my photos of wooden decorations also
-suck, so none shall be posted here, but owing probably to the fact
-that I spent so much time doing engineering and the likes, I've got
-train photos:
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-02.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-02-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-01.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-01-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-08.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-08-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-I gave those bitches some [iuțeală maximă][maximum-quickness]. Mind
-you, those trains are used to transport logs and tourists (so, pretty
-much the same thing), hence the slowness. And when did everyone get
-the fuck in such a hurry all of a sudden? And speaking of hurries and
-modern technology, here's a blast from the '90s:
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-03.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-03-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-I found this little gem -- with 9999 variations of five games, yes?
-and running on AAA batteries for a week, not like today's shitphone
-gaming implements -- at a "chinezării" store over in Upper
-Wischau. Unfortunately there's not much else to see in that sad little
-<del>town</del>[pre-urban][btcbase-1918305] shithole. Let's see:
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-10.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-10-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-Above: the redundantly-named Wasser water. Below: SC Tacniram SRL
-doesn't seem to have been faring very well in the last few
-years. Aside from their sad public record, they were closed and they
-had one (one!) ad for an apartment sale -- I've no idea who buys real
-estate there these days, so I'll leave it at that.
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-11.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-11-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-12.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-12-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-Above: a view of the town from a quiet, lonely yet so sweet vantage
-point on the outskirts. Notice: the churches, the school, the river, a
-bunch of houses and that's about where this Vișeu ends; I don't expect
-the other one's much different either, nor am I inclined to find
-out. Otherwise the town's main attraction is the so-called "mocăniță"
-train ride, with the vehicle at the beginning of this post -- and that
-mainly due to that whole picturesque atmosphere oozing out of
-it. There is nothing else to see there: you'd expect that at the end
-of that ride there'd be local girls cooking traditional local food,
-but it's just the usual Romanian kitschfest with shitbeer and the
-Romanian kafta known as "mici". Thanks but no thanks, I can have the
-very same anywhere in this country, in fact I just had some this
-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:
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-14.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-14-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-When's the last time you just grabbed an apple from a tree and ate it?
-How often do you do that? I don't, so I guess the people on the
-outskirts of Oberwischau are literally laughing their asses at this
-overly pompous sonofabitch who's commenting on this and that like he
-owns the place.
-
-Anyways, near the garden where that apple tree lives there's a
-cemetery -- with German, Hungarian, Polish and
-I-don't-know-from-where-sounding names, 'cuz Maramureș is a country of
-its own, what -- and near the cemetery there's a green pasture:
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-13.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-13-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-When's the last time you just sat your ass on a green pasture? Well we
-didn't because there was an angry dog nearby coming to greet us and
-let us know we're sitting on its property.
-
-Below, a photostudy done with a fixed 50mm lens. The lens, you see, is
-entirely unfit for this kind of photography, but what can I do? It's
-the one I had on me at the moment, so I squeezed the most out of
-it. I'm going to let the reader decide which of the photos is the
-best.
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-15.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-15-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-16.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-16-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-17.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-17-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-04.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-04-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-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.
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-05.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-05-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-06.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-06-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-07.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-07-thumb.png"> </a>
-
-<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-09.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-09-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. 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-21.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-21-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>
-
-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-25.png"> <img align="middle"
-class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-25-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? I guess David Lynch would be
-proud of my non-analysis.
-
-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
--- /dev/null
+---
+postid: 09a
+title: Maramureș
+date: August 9, 2019
+author: Lucian Mogoșanu
+tags: in-the-flesh
+---
+
+<p style="text-align: right">**Motto**:
+*La casa cu patru fete mor gainile de sete
+si fantana-i [supt parete][maramu].*</p>
+
+So [as I was saying][btcbase-1922407], a month ago this time I was
+travellin' through that old country with tall, "falnici" mountains
+hosting thick, tall, "falnice" woods of beech, fir, oak and other
+beautiful, majestic trees, whom the locals use to build their wooden
+houses in gardens wide as the eye can see, bound by wooden fences with
+great finely-decorated wooden gates, neighbouring small yet so very
+lovely wooden churches and so on and so forth. Anyway, I suck at this
+so I'll let the photos speak in my stead.
+
+Unfortunately for the reader, all my photos of wooden decorations also
+suck, so none shall be posted here, but owing probably to the fact
+that I spent so much time doing engineering and the likes, I've got
+train photos:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-02.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-02-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-01.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-01-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-08.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-08-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+I gave those bitches some [iuțeală maximă][maximum-quickness]. Mind
+you, those trains are used to transport logs and tourists (so, pretty
+much the same thing), hence the slowness. And when did everyone get
+the fuck in such a hurry all of a sudden? And speaking of hurries and
+modern technology, here's a blast from the '90s:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-03.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-03-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+I found this little gem -- with 9999 variations of five games, yes?
+and running on AAA batteries for a week, not like today's shitphone
+gaming implements -- at a "chinezării" store over in Upper
+Wischau. Unfortunately there's not much else to see in that sad little
+<del>town</del>[pre-urban][btcbase-1918305] shithole. Let's see:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-10.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-10-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Above: the redundantly-named Wasser water. Below: SC Tacniram SRL
+doesn't seem to have been faring very well in the last few
+years. Aside from their sad public record, they were closed and they
+had one (one!) ad for an apartment sale -- I've no idea who buys real
+estate there these days, so I'll leave it at that.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-11.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-11-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-12.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-12-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Above: a view of the town from a quiet, lonely yet so sweet vantage
+point on the outskirts. Notice: the churches, the school, the river, a
+bunch of houses and that's about where this Vișeu ends; I don't expect
+the other one's much different either, nor am I inclined to find
+out. Otherwise the town's main attraction is the so-called "mocăniță"
+train ride, with the vehicle at the beginning of this post -- and that
+mainly due to that whole picturesque atmosphere oozing out of
+it. There is nothing else to see there: you'd expect that at the end
+of that ride there'd be local girls cooking traditional local food,
+but it's just the usual Romanian kitschfest with shitbeer and the
+Romanian kafta known as "mici". Thanks but no thanks, I can have the
+very same anywhere in this country, in fact I just had some this
+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:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-14.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-14-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+When's the last time you just grabbed an apple from a tree and ate it?
+How often do you do that? I don't, so I guess the people on the
+outskirts of Oberwischau are literally laughing their asses off at
+this overly pompous sonofabitch who's commenting on this and that like
+he owns the place.
+
+Anyways, near the garden where that apple tree lives there's a
+cemetery -- with German, Hungarian, Polish and
+I-don't-know-from-where-sounding names, 'cuz Maramureș is a country of
+its own, what -- and near the cemetery there's a green pasture:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-13.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-13-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+When's the last time you just sat your ass on a green pasture? Well we
+didn't because there was an angry dog nearby coming to greet us and
+let us know we're sitting on its property.
+
+Below, a photostudy done with a fixed 50mm lens. The lens, you see, is
+entirely unfit for this kind of photography, but what can I do? It's
+the one I had on me at the moment, so I squeezed the most out of
+it. I'm going to let the reader decide which of the photos is the
+best.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-15.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-15-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-16.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-16-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-17.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-17-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-04.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-04-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+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.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-05.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-05-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-06.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-06-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-07.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-07-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-09.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-09-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. 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-21.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-21-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>
+
+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-25.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-25-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? I guess David Lynch would be
+proud of my non-analysis.
+
+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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