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author says it differently. He appeals to the story of a gardener, who, tired of so many
flowers, decided to make an exceptional thing. He took a potato and divided it into two
with a chalk, expressing a speech as a constitution, by which he decides that „although
pieces of a whole, the two parts will never be called the same again” and forbidders „the
sap and the food, even ideas to circulate from one part to another”. Not being able to
predict what will happen in the future with the potato, the author exclaims ironically at
the end: „I understand that the big bosses of the states/would share the country into
two/It’s normally and just/But a simple gardener to do such thing with a potato/It is just
too much”.
At the same category was noticed the sketch My dam by Marin Sorescu 27 , that, said the
censors, „suggests the idea that the battle for power is an unvoiced phenomenon of the
human society, that in this battle for getting new luxuries and territories, the masses act as
blind instruments, without reaction to the crimes and that the development of the society
is made with imminent wars”. More to come, the paper, it was said, „mocks the idea of
pacts at the round table for total or partial disarmament, these pacts being used with the
purpose of covering the race for the munitions’ improvement” 28 .
It was observed the story Pseudo tauro manie by Marin Porumbescu 29 ,, a burlesque
fantasy, a parody of an imaginative performance of bullfight offert by a foreign group on
our national Circus’ arena. Presenting the main heroes of this bullfight, the author, among
other details, shows that the bull Spuryus, coming across the borders and passing through
Moldavia, on all his itinerary made in our country he left deep marks. „With his nose
forever red, has stable, bloodshot eyes..., heavy hooves with surrealistic stamps and some
horns that terrify, imposing respect and fear”. Surprisingly, the bull Spuryus reacts only
to yellow. The matador, named Escondido Sacha Sehohr Ubu, surnamed Ledykiler,
coming from somewhere far away, from the east, is tall, thin, agile and with the walk of a
cat, wears a yellow jacket, uses a yellow roulette, is saluted with yellow handkerchieves.
There is also a smaller torero, with a more humble role in the fight, who also wears „a
dirty yellow” roulette, and in the battle with the bull he only tries to angry it, to get it
tired. The author shows in many details the fierce fight between the bull and the matador.
At a certain moment, the small matador introduces a crosstree in its nose, and from
Spuryus nose begins to flow wheat „as in Constanta’s silo”. At the end, looking inside the
dock of the woundeds, the author ascertain that the bull and the matador are some madeup,
disguised impostors, that the whole show (fight) was a trick.
A part of the fault for the existence of many problematic materials from this category
was considered to be because of the magazines’ editorial offices from the countryside,
who introduced in their pages materials whose publishing wasn’t advisable in the given
conjunction. As examples, were given more materials, Reflexes by Augustin Buzura 30 ,
who made some considerations upon the satire of A. Avercenko, whose short stories were
populated with „idiots of all kinds”, emphasizing the special value of the social short
stories, showing that „in a period as that in which lived the author, when the authorities
tries heavily to restrict, to impose their way of thinking, the satirical literature was the
only one who could reflect properly the period, and who, as a paradox, got the right to
27 From Cronica, no. 21, 26.V.1967.
28 AN-SJBH, fund DGPT-UO, folder 9/1967, file 12-13.
29 That was supposed to appear in the magazine Ateneu (Bacau), no. 10/1967.
30 From Tribuna (Cluj), no. 43, 26.X.1967.