From ce3ccbb75f82d41250615e27ebbb0b251f8a63f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 18:07:22 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] posts: 09a --- drafts/000-maramures.markdown | 292 -------------------------------------- posts/y06/09a-maramures.markdown | 292 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 292 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drafts/000-maramures.markdown create mode 100644 posts/y06/09a-maramures.markdown diff --git a/drafts/000-maramures.markdown b/drafts/000-maramures.markdown deleted file mode 100644 index 0947d13..0000000 --- a/drafts/000-maramures.markdown +++ /dev/null @@ -1,292 +0,0 @@ ---- -postid: 000 -title: Maramureș -date: August 9, 2019 -author: Lucian Mogoșanu -tags: in-the-flesh ---- - -

**Motto**: -*La casa cu patru fete mor gainile de sete -si fantana-i [supt parete][maramu].*

- -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: - - - - - - - -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: - - - -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 -town[pre-urban][btcbase-1918305] shithole. Let's see: - - - -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. - - - - - -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: - - - -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: - - - -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. - - - - - - - - - -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. - - - - - - - - - -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. - - - - - -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! - - - - - - - -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. - - - - - - - -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. - - - -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 diff --git a/posts/y06/09a-maramures.markdown b/posts/y06/09a-maramures.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b78b872 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/y06/09a-maramures.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,292 @@ +--- +postid: 09a +title: Maramureș +date: August 9, 2019 +author: Lucian Mogoșanu +tags: in-the-flesh +--- + +

**Motto**: +*La casa cu patru fete mor gainile de sete +si fantana-i [supt parete][maramu].*

+ +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: + + + + + + + +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: + + + +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 +town[pre-urban][btcbase-1918305] shithole. Let's see: + + + +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. + + + + + +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: + + + +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: + + + +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. + + + + + + + + + +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. + + + + + + + + + +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. + + + + + +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! + + + + + + + +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. + + + + + + + +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. + + + +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 -- 1.7.10.4