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My most bizarre clubbing experience in Eastern Europe was in Romania, in a resort on the Black Sea called Mamaia mamaia.com, that was built for workers in Ceausescu's time.
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". . . I want some cold mamaia."
"In the fridge. Do me a favor. You go. I'm working."
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 191
October 2, 2008
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The Mamaia movement of Tahiti . . . . was an Antinomian sect, preaching the transcendence of law, and endorsing sexual freedom and the production of alchohol.
--Vanessa Smith, 1998, Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-century Textual Encounters, p. 95
October 2, 2008
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Mamaia is on a strip of land bordered on one side by the Black Sea and fine beaches and on the other by the fresh waters of Mamaia Lake.
--Eugene Fodor, 1997, Fodor's Europe, p. 917
October 2, 2008
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Anyone know what Eco is talking about here?
October 2, 2008