Bodor Ferenc: Coffee-Houses - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1992)
Kata Poor Lajos Muck must soon step out of the present in order to be able to sink back into historical obscurity. This place will be reconquered by the money-making Thurzós, conforming to the attitude of our age in good style. The crossed-out street-sign will remain an eyesore for a while yet on the subtly iopped-off post-Bauhausian wall, but then the local authorities will come and take down the heritage of the past. The neigh- bourhoud is industrial, but of the well-to-do PLC kind, vacant lots in some places, and Dutch suburb-like in others. There is silence in the streets, out-patients emerge from the local dispensary. Judging by the campaign posters, a consensus has been reached, Rajk jnr. and Torgyán were given similar treatment. The Gilde Pilsner and Budatej placards are relatively unscathed. On the terrace, pensioned inside lefts plump down on the plastic chairs. In the decadent late afternoon sunshine everything seems tiny, details are minuscule, only a few vague erotic thoughts filter through the glass panels of private enterprises. At such times the level of froth in the beer-glasses rises a fraction. 52/B VISEGRÁDI (JTCA, XIII. Early afternoon siesta in the mini-KATA on the edge of Új-Lipótoáros 54
