For the days 20 years ago and for the days left to this year

ALL IS TRUTH
O ME, man of slack faith so long!
Standing aloof--denying portions so long;
Only aware to-day of compact, all-diffused truth;
Discovering to-day there is no lie, or form of lie, and can be none,
but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon
itself,
Or as any law of the earth, or any natural production of the earth
does.

(This is curious, and may not be realized immediately--But it must be
realized;
I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,
And that the universe does.)

Where has fail'd a perfect return, indifferent of lies or the truth?
Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire? or in the spirit of man?
or in the meat and blood?

Meditating among liars, and retreating sternly into myself, I see
that there are really no liars or lies after all,
And that nothing fails its perfect return--And that what are called
lies are perfect returns,
And that each thing exactly represents itself, and what has preceded
it,
And that the truth includes all, and is compact, just as much as
space is compact,
And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth--but
that all is truth without exception;
And henceforth I will go celebrate anything I see or am,
And sing and laugh, and deny nothing.

Walt Whitman

"Vă sunt recunoscător"

Geoană la PNL, după ce termină discursul, extra: "vă sunt recunoscător!" râdeți voi râdeți, dar eu așa ceva n-am auzit în 20 de ani de post-revoluție. "Vă sunt recunoscător!" Cuvinte de o frumusețe Steinhardtiana.

Eu ma simt onorată să am un președinte căruia îi vin firesc cuvintele astea.

M-am săturat de cinism.

Update: Romanii lui 'vă sunt recunoscator' sunt mai putini decit cei ai lui 'v-am ciuruit'. Poate ar trebui sa schimb unele timpuri ale verbelor din acest mic post. N-o s-o fac. I stand by my words.

My traditional 'Happy Birthday, dear R!' post

azi eu nu vorbesc de b.

Twenty years after!

Romania, 1989



Romania 2009
20 years after, while all celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, the same disident poet Mircea Dinescu, in a country where very few stood up like him, for the dignity and liberty of many, is threatened and demeaned in public, repeatedly.


REALITATEA.NET - Antonie Solomon: Dinescu, dacă vrea să rămână în Oltenia, să îşi schimbe purtarea!
Warned that he must stop being hostile to the President or else he will be thrown out of the country,over to the other shore of the Danube!!!
Insulted in front of the democratically-elected President, of the acting Prime Minister, of MPs and MEPs Monica Macovei, Theodor Stolojan, who all cheer and applaud. Great EU EPP family members!!!

Remember!


"Nebunul isi cloceste crima
si ne omoara fiindca ne iubeste,
când ne e foame deseneaza peste,
când vine frigul aresteaza clima,
opriti Istoria-cobor la prima
opriti la statia Doamne-Fereste."

Unutulmuş Birer Birer Eski Dostlar

Unutulmuş birer birer (Forgotten one by one)
Eski dostlar, eski dostlar (old friends, old friends)
Ne bir selâm, ne bir haber (neither any "hello"s, nor any news)
Eski dostlar, eski dostlar (old friends, old friends)

Hayâl meyâl düşler gibi (Like vague dreams)
Uçup giden kuşlar gibi (Like fleeing away birds)
Yosun tutan taşlar gibi (Like stones getting mossy)
Eski dostlar, eski dostlar (old friends, old friends)

Unutulmuş isimlerde (Forgotten names)
Bilinmez ki nasıl, nerde (it is not known how he/she is, where he/she is)
Şimdi yalnız resimlerde (Now, it is only in photographs)
Eski dostlar, eski dostlar (old friends, old friends)

Literal translation kindly provided by Nazli. Thanks!

Now we can sing along. I still very much prefer the surrealist Mehter in Holland version.
Trying to exorcise a bit of the political folly of the latest posts.

New "Leapşa" from blogger friends

I got it from Lilick.
Apparently people thought of rolling questions like a huge snowball that would come upon our Fuehrer.
The only question that I would ask him and the only manner in which I would do it, is this:


Does RO look like a bitch to you?

"Leapsa" - what would this be, "relay", in English?

In reply to the "relay" question I got from Lilick on possible candidates for the 2014 Romanian presidential elections:
For now I don't see anyone that would fit the profile that I have in mind - a candidate wired to all that is relevant internationally, science and technology-friendly, a real possible Romanian Blackberry President. One that would unwind creativity, one that would support a Bucharest Institute of Technology, for instance, who would insist on state-of-the art agricultural technology and not on the 'tradition' of endless toiling. If possible she/he should also not fail on the following: decorum. Can you see anyone like that in the current political crowd? Mihai Voicu, perhaps, but I don't think he would be nominated.
So, among the cards that we have been dealt till now:
1. Crin Antonescu - hope he will be the incumbent, after having evolved a lot during the first mandate. He shows serious potential.

2. Renate Weber - provided she gets a stylist (saying this with respect and a lot of sympathy) and very good PR meanwhile.

3. Cristian Diaconescu - would not mind him as a president.

And I would pass the question on to Mihai Voicu. He's closer to all this and may have spotted someone that would fit my sketch.