Buda and Pest: two sides of a story
Budapest is a city that was made up of three cities. Buda is a mostly clean cut old town with conservative traditions and prideful bourgeoisie. It was always closer to the centre of power and the composition of its citizenry still changes with winds, even though the country is governed from the Parliament on the other side.Pest is a pulsing cosmopolitan place, changing much faster and more dramatically than Buda. Pest is the real city where you feel that anything can and will happen. Maybe because it was built on a messy, marshy place in Barbaricum, where the lines of power were not so clearly drawn. Unfortunately, most of Óbuda, the third city-part, became a huge, faceless pre-fab housing estate with only the old town square and a few places by the Danube telling about past glory.
When Ice-T visited here he said aptly that Buda is the Body and Pest is the Pussy. Even the B-s and P-s are matching. He was right, the city is a woman, with the hills as breasts and something messy on the left bank where you can feel the twirl of things. You wonder the grace of Buda and feel the power of Pest, the pussy, sucking everything into itself. Just like you admire the elegant style, shoulders and breasts of a Buda woman and you feel the fatal, invincible attraction to the pussy of the Pest woman.


August 9th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
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