I was just out walking Izzy. Midnight up to the Capitol, SLC, - TopicsExpress



          

I was just out walking Izzy. Midnight up to the Capitol, SLC, beige and scrubbed city of saints. Stopped to talk with heavy-accent kuvasz owner. He smokes and is old and lavishly mustached. Hungarian, I guessed out loud, and he affirmed it. We talked for 15 minutes about the young Patrick Leigh Fermor walking through Hungary right before the Nazi invasion. SLC midnight and strangers connect over an obscure book and he is moved that I, an American, know something of his world, if only through a book. And I am moved that this old man lives alone reading great books far from home and that we could meet even here in the vacuous west where history hasnt stuck.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 06:23:20 +0000

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