The man in the market shouts, shouts, makes a fuss because he lives from it. He is the seller of hysteria and, the emptier he is, the greater the resonance he has when he finds his appropriate "public" (after all, the biggest noise is made by a cart with empty barrels, not the one carrying full barrels)...
I am amazed to discover an extraordinary work written by Olga Greceanu, "Mural Composition - Its Laws and Techniques" - Bucharest 1935. A book that should be the cornerstone for any artist, curator, art critic or (in my case) art admirer/lover....
The etymologies of words are incursions into the history not only of the Romanian language but of the history of the Romanian nation. Something that shows us our development as a people around something that has maintained our integrity: the Romanian language. On the 23rd Sunday I listened to the sermon on the healing of the demoniac from the land of Ghergheseni. Of course…
Interview with the Belgian publication L'Echo: A faceless power exercises total control over the people You say that George Orwell is a great political thinker. He described all the dictatorships of the 20th century and anticipated our era. What are the signs of totalitarianism in our days? No…
Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches...
“[..] Basically, metaphysics has always been a new stylization of old thoughts. […] “ Lucian Blaga – The Original Phenomenon, 1925 edition
“[…] After a spiritual culture has reached its final peaks of flowering – it transforms, with the fatality inherent in life, into material civilization. Civilization is the fatal end of any culture. […]” Lucian Blaga – The Original Phenomenon, 1925 edition, page 80 (Spengler Chapter)
The social construct called the Romanian “people” seems to be tearing itself apart. It is not only the cause of the current hysteria or pandemic (call it what you will) but we have a fabric that has been attacked and weakened for years. The attacks (mostly unconscious but carefully thought out by the „other”…
Restitutio in integrum A book by the forgotten writer Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești had also been “ignored” by Wikipedia. I made the necessary correction. The book is a late creation of the writer-magistrate (at 74 years old) and is thus above suspicions of partisanship. At that age we are facing…
I have an interesting library. Which contains many old volumes, some worthless (for "specialists"), many rarities (many "politically incorrect"), many just dear to me. Over the years I have carefully gathered this collection that I want to pass on to the next generation that is growing up...