My (Endre) overflow consisted of a photo I took during fieldwork in Budapest and three short stories. Here’s the photo:
And here are the stories:
- The greatest enemies of parliamentary democracy are not fascists or communists, but pigeons – at least this is what I learned during an interview with one of the employees of the Hungarian Parliament. They (the pigeons) do more damage to the white limestone building than revolutions and acid rain. In order to keep them away, the Department of Repair and Maintenance decided to keep trained falcons in the inner courtyards. Anyone who claims maintenance is a task beyond human capacity is completely right.
(more soon…)
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Hey this reminds me of the lions at Rhodes Memorial, erected to commemorate the colonialist who created (the borders of!) Northern and Southern Rhodesia (Now Zambia and Zimbabwe). These lions stand formally guarding the collonades, looking out over Cape Town towards the ex-Rhodesia but instead of inspiring awe and grandeur they are more likely to be the set for goofy photos or the backdrop to wedding shots. The ceremonial which was intended to be embedded in those lions is reinvented in less than 100 years.