From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 13:23:58 +0000 (+0300) Subject: maramures: Add full draft X-Git-Tag: v0.11~12 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba0186f11859512a97da573f9babe64094005e57;p=thetarpit.git maramures: Add full draft --- diff --git a/drafts/000-maramures.markdown b/drafts/000-maramures.markdown index 2242f92..11f8eb6 100644 --- a/drafts/000-maramures.markdown +++ b/drafts/000-maramures.markdown @@ -78,6 +78,18 @@ 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: @@ -123,7 +135,7 @@ class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-04-thumb.png"> 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. @@ -139,7 +151,12 @@ class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-09-thumb.png"> 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. @@ -147,6 +164,20 @@ class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-18-thumb.png"> +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! + @@ -156,8 +187,23 @@ class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-21-thumb.png"> - +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. @@ -168,14 +214,79 @@ class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/08/maramures-25-thumb.png"> +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. + +In what is now probably becoming [tradition][worker-culture], I shall +leave the reader to ponder the following piece, from somewhere else: + +[^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