PETER ESTERHAZY
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with a marvelous blue smoke screen, and people would stop and stare with
great respect: imagine getting "that thing" to move. It had a nice little leftish
image to it as well. )
The European Style
According to a Hungarian proverb, if the Earth is God 's hat, then
Hungary is the posy on it. Let me take it one step further and say that if the
Earth is God's hat then Germany is the posy on it. Everything is a posy
these days here in Europe.
All
we need to know now is whether God's hat is
the Earth, and the battle is as good as won. That is Europe's most pressing
question.
Questions of style are the only eternal questions.
Translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim
