Journal of a Sabbatical |
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February 26, 2001 |
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Today's Reading: 1)In A Hungarian Quartet * Four Contemporary Short Novels: Logbook by Géza Ottlik, Left Behind by Iván Mándy, Forgiveness by Miklós Mésöly, and The Transporters by Péter Esterházy - finished them all; 2) Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer - started. |
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Botanical Department, Hungarian Museum of Natural History - Budapest - February 26, 2001
Indulging in one of my more bizarre and incomprehensible pleasures, freezing cold picnics, I bought some fruit, yogurt, and green tea with lemon at a small market on Erszebet tér and ate it on a park bench in the square while watching old men feed the pigeons. Despite the cold, the park was alive with birds: house sparrows, pigeons, magpies, a collard dove, and a jackdaw. I watched the jackdaw chase the pigeons out of the tree. Even a European robin showed up. It must thing it's spring. I'm starting to recognize individual pigeons at Deak tér and Kalvin tér. Each square has its own flock of pigeons, its own old guys who feed pigeons, and its own old women who sell flowers. I bought two bunches of snowdrops from a woman in the Deak tér metro station for 100 forints.
Fried cauliflower has no taste. If you dip it in tartar sauce it almost resembles mild fried fish. Really mild. I finished all four stories in Hungarian Quartet. Very weird. See my booklist for comments. Started Under the Frog. Very funny and engaging. |
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Copyright © 2001, Janet I. Egan |