“Do you know what I’d like most? It is to get down to Tabán and to have a little Kadarka and look at the people and to be lost in the past in the Restaurant To the Deep Cellar.
“Do you want to drink some ropy wine that can be cut with scissors like that Kandúr wrote about in his short-story The History of an Early Riser? Man, have you lost your mind? When we are offering you the best sorts of wine? Incidentally, your Tabán is no more. It was torn down a long time ago… Tomorrow morning you are flying to Santorini, and till then we have to get more changes of clothes for you and everything else that you will need for a holiday in Greece.
“No tailor can make so many suits in the course of this time,” the boatman rocked the boat.
“Tailors do not exist any longer either, Sindbad. We’ll buy
