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Geography When younger I was always resolute in wanting to visit Milton Keynes and Transylvania, mostly because I liked the sound of the names. Eventually my curiosity about Milton Keynes subsided when I saw photographs, but I never quite got over my Transylvania pangs. Like most people I had in my imagination lots of hills, many castles and streams of villages with torches wanting to batter down the doorways of the many castles. But the contemporary reality of this small part of Romania is very different, especially in the post-Ceausescu era. Robert R. Thompson of Pop Matters visited recently and describes how the former dictator is now thought of in gothic horror terms.