The Romanians are a brilliant and industrious people who value literature above all else. The country's motto is, in fact, "Literature Above All Else." Here, writers are gods:
Here is a typical venue for readings:
If you have the incredible luck to visit from a foreign land, this is where they put you:
This is where they discuss literature:
If you don't speak Romanian, there are translators:
What, you don't believe that I've actually read in this incredible country? This vast, sprawling, literature-adoring, writer-respecting country, a country so huge you could fit about five Russias into it? Here's the proof:
Do you love, pork, as I do? If so, they will feed you:
Would you like to see a horse? If so, they will take you to one:
Are you menopausal?
Do you enjoy coffee?
Badges?
Next, a report from Constanta, where Ovid lived exactly 2,000 years ago . . .