Translators’ Note: the words in italics are in English in the original. Zugló is a suburb of Budapest. She was standing by the philodendron, watching the apparatus make one last click. For days she thought that the sound came from the plant. These days they come up with so many new things. Would she have been really this naïve? That was also Jack's fault, like many other things. I wonder when he'll figure out that this thingamajig has croaked; perhaps he'll notice it as soo