Tell me,’ he asked, with some embarassment, as we strolled along: ‘you’re a bloody German, aren’t you?”Oh, no. I’m Hungarian.”Hungarian?”Hungarian.”What’s that? Is that a country? Or you are just having me on?’Not at all. On my word of honour, it is a country.”And where do you Hungarians live?”In Hungary. Between Austria, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia’.’Come off it. Those places were made up by Shakespeare.

Tell me,’ he asked, with some embarassment, as we strolled along: ‘you’re a bloody German, aren’t you?”Oh, no. I’m Hungarian.”Hungarian?”Hungarian.”What’s that? Is that a country? Or you are just having me on?’Not at all. On my word of honour, it is a country.”And where do you Hungarians live?”In Hungary. Between Austria, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia’.’Come off it. Those places were made up by Shakespeare.

– Antal Szerb –

The Pendragon Legend

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