 At about the same time, Banuș, who still had doubts about Marxism (although she would eventually become an official, albeit somewhat conflicted, poetess of the regime), recorded in her diary that she felt "ashamed" to confront Păun about everything that she herself did not have the courage and energy to do.By 1940, Păun had made his choice.Both he and Teodorescu had joined the Bucharest surrealist group, whose founders were Luca and Gellu Naum.