Urmuz was again in Bucharest, working as grefier (registrar or court reporter) at the High Court of Cassation and Justice; sources disagree on whether this appointment dated from 1918 or earlier. Ion Pop, " 'Călătoriile' avangardei românești (I)" , in Tribuna, Nr. 175, December 2009, p.10–11 C. Trandafir, "Înainte-mergătorul fără voie", in România Literară, Nr. 9/2009Călinescu, p.888; Cernat, Avangarda, p.340, 341, 379; Crohmălniceanu, p.55, 571; Sandqvist, p.227 Reportedly, this was a well paid employment with special perks, which may have made Urmuz uncomfortable about his other life as a bohemian hero.Cernat, Avangarda, p.379 A photograph portrait taken in that period, one of the few to survive, was read as an additional clue that Urmuz had become melancholy and anxious.Crohmălniceanu, p.571; Sandqvist, p.227 Sandqvist also sees him as a "catastrophically lonely" and insomniac customer of the brothels, adding: "To all appearances as a result of disgusting experiences during the wars, returning home to Bucharest Demetru Demetrescu-Buzău chose to live an extremely ascetic and isolated life with long night walks."Sandqvist, p.19, 227 Urmuz's feats and pranks were nonetheless attracting more public attention, and he himself allegedly read his work to a bohemian public, in places such as Gabroveni Inn; at least some of these were free exercises in oral literature, and as such entirely lost.
