Serious and unserious self-portrait

Born in Bucharest, he’s a poet like all Romanians. I completed the first four years of primary school. I was brought up in a number of different cultural institutions, which has helped me to become a true synthesis of Romanian culture, a jewel of the nation and of humanity.

I’ve always been a sociable person and I’ve known most of the current and future members of the “Criterion” since I was a child. I’ve known them from countless societies, associations and groups that have been set up and disbanded under different names and with different aims. I’ve been involved with them or against them, but basically they’re pursuing the same aim as the “Criterion” today, psychoanalytically speaking. I don’t know what compromise is. I think the world of everyone. Education has taught me that the gentle lamb does not scratch badly.

I’m focused on the north, which is the only fixed cardinal point. We use this as a reference point for all other directions.

Just to give you a quick update on where we are right now: we’re currently at East Greenwich. 47° 36′ 45″.

I’m not the strongest, but I’ve got a lot of spirit. I’ve also got some space.

I’m based at Popa Soare Street.

I don’t respond to anonymous inquiries.

My qualifications are as follows: Cocoșu Roșu, Caligula’s Horse, Paul Sterian and Nae Ionescu.

I have a lot of admiration for pure things. I forgot to mention that I consider myself the best in all fields, after God.

I’m just Professor Gusti’s favourite assistant. I add cautiously: I have no access to him.

My personal motto is: there is no God but God, and Mohammed, that is me, is his interpreter.

And another thing I like to live by is: I’m either all in or nothing at all. But it’s better to go for all than none.

(Mircea Vulcănescu – Profil spiritual, edited by Marin Diaconu, Eminescu Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, pp. 74-75 apud Curriculum Vitae for the “Criterion” parade in 1933, in Manuscriptum, year XXVII, no. 1-2, 1996, p. 235)