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and split up all over it remains the symbol of a privacy, bestowing onto the
things around a special value, “giving birth” to new forms and re-inventing
presences (Baudrillard 1996: 15).
One can identify a kind of informal interpersonal communication situation
inside the space of the inn. Those who come to find shelter here become friends
with one another, through the act of story-telling, of letting words flow freely,
without having to follow rules that have been established before. Each of those
present here feel the need to communicate with the others, to make themselves
heard, to impress the audience with an unbelievable, unheard-of happening, by
evoking moments that took place long ago, by recreating, through skilled words,
the portrait of some people who were travellers and revellers at this inn and
who, although passed away, have remained vivid in the others’ memories. “And
while waiting for AncuŃa to bring us new small jars with fresh wine we began to
exchange a few words with one another”. Some of the character-travellers are
used to living in stillness, alone, in isolation. The hermit Gherman, who came
from his hermitage in the mountains and who used to spend his days praying
without any companion to speak with, besides God, joined the other story–
tellers and, fascinated by the stories he heard of, he “broke the silence and let
his words unweave the story” (Haralambie p. 12) about the tragic destiny of the
outlaw Haralambie.
In other words, AncuŃa’s Inn is a place for telling and revelling. The
warm, intimate atmosphere the travellers find in here circumscribes the time of
some stories which happened long ago, a time of either memories of their youth
or of unrequited love stories. The equerry IoniŃă is obsessed with the idea of the
ephemeral nature of the human being, the people being only revellers halting at
this inn, or travellers through life: “I am but a traveller, he said, raising his small
jar”(Voda`s Mare p. 5). It is as if the flames of the fire in the hearth, bring back
to life all their memories and stories of the past. Many of the happenings that
took place in former times “find their roots, their end or even took place here at
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