To: Mr. Publius Ovidius Naso.
From: A descendant of the Getae, Sauromatae, Greeks, Romans and many others.
Sir Ovid (for this is how people call you in the West. I think the “ius” is too hard for them to pronounce. It could also be that they shortened your name due to that tendency they have to abbreviate [...]
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To an ancestor, dearly…
Posted in Green tea infused thoughts, On the Arts, tagged Black Sea, exile, immigration, Marea Neagra, Ovid, roman poetry, Tomis on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aliki Vougiouklaki – “Thalassa platia”
Posted in Green tea infused thoughts, tagged old greeks, the sea on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
English translation here
pass over
Posted in Green tea infused thoughts, tagged airports, fiction, hiatus on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t leave him, as everyone thought, because I got bored. It is, however, true that he was the most tedious, dull person I’ve ever met but that’s something I could have lived with. As a matter of fact, I’ve gotten to think of lameness as a positive trait of character and Gigi used to take me [...]
ad absurdum
Posted in Green tea infused thoughts on November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I can’t remember how and when it all started. Maybe it started during that one night, a long time ago, when I was in grade one or two and I felt like school was the worst thing that could ever happen to a kid who loved walnut trees and pigs and dirt roads. I remember [...]
A little bit of nothingness in my life, a little bit of existentialism by my side…
Posted in Green tea infused thoughts, tagged existentialism, nothingness on March 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
So what if I’ll die one day? Should I spend the rest of my life studying the Bardo Thodol? Does it really matter how I die? Is dieing from cancer different from dieing in a car accident or dieing when sleeping? Gabriel Liiceanu, a Romanian writer, was explaining in one of his books that we [...]
