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What remains are the pages that fit into no category — and which are perhaps the ones that resemble me most.
Poems written at night, parables, people I loved and accompanied to their graves, books and teachers, the sea and its ships, Eminescu, family feasts, ironies aimed at the times, sporting joys, a dog, a city falling apart before our eyes.
I kept them because a man is not only what he fights against. He is also what he loves.
By subtheme
Every subject has its own page. Open the rows below.
Friends, teachers, beautiful people — and the words spoken at parting.
- A Hard Day at Sea July 19, 2013
- A Question Put to the “Journalists” of Our Nation September 4, 2013
- On the Scene in the Square November 6, 2015
- On the Constellation of Orion December 26, 2015
- For Alexandra August 3, 2019
- A Protest by Dancing, Stopped at Eleven August 2, 2020
- The Invisible People February 25, 2021
- Another Day, Another Tragedy March 1, 2021
- In Moscow, on “Greater Romania” June 25, 2022
- We Have Lost a Beautiful and Good Man. One of the Most Beautiful and Best I Have Known January 24, 2023
The few verses I have dared to make public.
- “What Is Wave Passes like the Wave” October 22, 2012
- A Drop (a poem) June 30, 2013
- On the Trial at Vaslui July 22, 2015
- Winterwhite (a poem) January 23, 2016
- On Eminescu and Our Purpose June 15, 2017
- Winterwhite (a poem) March 23, 2018
- In Vain (a poem) January 30, 2020
- Many and Beautiful Years, on “Women’s Day” March 8, 2021
- Eminescu: a Sombre Prophecy January 16, 2026
Why, when I ask myself what still holds us together, the answer begins with him.
- If You Speak, I Shall Feign Deafness January 16, 2016
- Why Do I Still Love This People and Stubbornly Live Out My Days Here? June 15, 2017
- And, in All This Sordid Commotion, We Would Do Well Not to Forget That June 15, 2017
- Let Us Begin the Week on a High Note May 20, 2019
- Because “All Is Old and All Is New” January 15, 2020
- Eminescu on Cosmopolitanism January 21, 2020
- And Yet… Why Are We Romanians So Enamoured of the Foreign? So Xenophile and So Romanophobe? September 28, 2020
- “…Great Waves Had Beaten My Little Boat.” January 18, 2022
- “Many Happy Returns” on the Day of the Romanian Language August 31, 2023
- Eminescu’s Day: a Question January 15, 2024
Readings, philosophy, tradition, and the men from whom I learned.
- Dan Était Célibataire December 28, 2012
- Pages from a Journal, at the Turning of the Years January 1, 2013
- Notebooks of Traditional Writings and Studies April 19, 2013
- On Initiation (René Guénon) April 22, 2013
- And You Think It Little July 2, 2013
- A Friend’s Library July 7, 2013
- On Philosophers and Rich Men August 30, 2013
- Pages from a Journal: the Witness January 3, 2014
- Dialogues with Socrates (I) September 13, 2014
- Dialogues with Socrates (II) September 13, 2014
The sea, that last realm of liberty — and the roads that bring you back to yourself.
- A Few (Different) Thoughts from the Seashore August 7, 2012
- And Now a Thought for the Goddesses of Our Lives March 8, 2013
- Romanians, Free Within the EU December 30, 2013
- On the Mickey Mouses October 3, 2014
- Do You Remember the Time, Comrade Mihai Ungureanu? June 25, 2015
- Brexit: the Great EU, RIP? June 24, 2016
- On the Patience of Job April 29, 2017
- A Miracle at the Registry August 9, 2017
- The Complaint of September 2016 September 28, 2017
- On the Journey as an “In-Cursion” October 20, 2017
Thanks given, birthdays, good wishes, and the people without whom none of this would have any purpose.
- On a Third Term? January 25, 2012
- Thanks to My Friends February 11, 2012
- On Shaking Off Human Follies November 2, 2012
- On the Accounts That Were “Visited” (I) January 9, 2013
- Thanks to My Friends, on My Birthday February 11, 2013
- Thanks, on My Birthday February 11, 2014
- On a Text Received by E-mail February 15, 2014
- Agent 00x at the Opera January 9, 2015
- On My Thirty-Eighth Birthday February 14, 2015
- It Is a Good Beginning. But It Is by No Means Enough November 3, 2015
National joys and national humiliations, and what is to be learned from them.
- The “Future” Is Built on Schooling May 13, 2017
- “We Want Hospitals, Not Stadiums! Schools, Not Stadiums! Motorways, Not Stadiums!” November 19, 2018
- Shame on the Football Federation! Stop Discriminating Against LGBT Footballers February 23, 2019
- Romania’s Finest Hours November 24, 2019
- The Image of Our Defeat December 1, 2020
- Under the Sign of Hatred December 11, 2020
- A Nation of Spectators June 28, 2021
- This Boy, David Popovici, Is a Marvel June 22, 2022
- Pressure on “Our Boys” July 2, 2024
Everyday Bucharest, with its unfinished underpasses and its inhabitants.
- Lines Written at Midnight October 3, 2012
- A Disconcerting Experience March 14, 2013
- The Odyssey of the Return, by Way of Lyon February 10, 2014
- On a Colleague Who Was an Informer March 11, 2015
- José Carreras in Bucharest November 26, 2015
- A Violin. An Accordion. A Ballad. And Much Soul. A Passage Towards a Better, Fairer World November 27, 2015
- On the Clear-Cut Forests and the Criminals December 3, 2015
- Who Are the Killers of Brussels March 23, 2016
- Why I Do Not Take to the Streets February 1, 2017
- No, Soros Is Not Behind the Anti-Government Protests February 1, 2017
Networks, algorithms, artificial intelligence — and what is lost along the way.
- Dear Friends on Facebook September 28, 2018
- From the Emergency Service’s Press Release It Follows That the Romanian Citizen Does Not Need Its “Services” July 26, 2019
- A Story from Yesterday, Told in a Break from Work April 8, 2020
- The Inevitable Has Come to Pass September 16, 2020
- On Ration Cards and Rationing July 18, 2022
- To the Very End October 3, 2022
- On the “Stray” Missile (II) November 17, 2022
- “The Greatest Hoax in History” August 20, 2023
- Banned on WhatsApp March 6, 2025
- On Censorship and “AI of Us” March 31, 2025
Winter, spring, earthquakes, years that begin and years that end.
- On the Diversion in University Square January 19, 2012
- A Thought Towards the Nativity December 24, 2012
- On Virtues Turned Tyrant January 28, 2013
- A Redeeming Sunrise After a Very Hard Night on an Exceedingly Rough Sea July 14, 2013
- On the Earthquakes at Izvoarele October 6, 2013
- An “Aho, Aho” for the Forests December 24, 2013
- A Story with a Moral August 12, 2015
- A Textbook Example of Attempted Aggravated Murder. For Those Interested August 29, 2016
- In the Roar of the Abyss September 24, 2016
- In Autumn, a Thousand Leaves and Boughs Submitted to Their Fate December 26, 2016
Laughter as a form of resistance.
- On the Propaganda of “Resilience” September 17, 2018
- The Word Is the Mightiest Weapon April 4, 2019
- On the Terrors of “Civilisation” January 11, 2022
- “I, the Judge, Rise and Plead for Every Man’s Right to Speak Freely” March 13, 2022
- Roșia Montană and UNESCO February 8, 2024
The remaining entries, those that fit nowhere and are written for precisely that reason.
- Spritzgate (II): the Gentleman from the Logan August 21, 2010
- Spritzgate (III): “Shame on You!” August 21, 2010
- Spritzgate (IV): “You Are a Brute!” August 21, 2010
- Spritzgate (V): Flanked by Bodyguards August 21, 2010
- Spritzgate (VI): the Back of the Hand August 21, 2010
- Gipsy Is Looking for a Master September 1, 2010
- On Intellectuals and the Backbone December 2, 2010
- S&P, Taken to Court January 26, 2012
- On “Sources” and Intelligence May 26, 2012
- Via Candice Dragotă July 3, 2012

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