The Old Man In Budapest Who Abides

And: Notes From The Class War; Sunday Morning In A Small Southern Town

I took this photo the other day from my table at a wine bar terrace in Budapest. If not for the car in the background, this image could have been taken a century ago, or more. It fills me with satisfaction to contemplate it: a European intellectual, nursing a lager, reading a book at a neighborhood café. I love to take American visitors to this place, t…