Among various possible forms of oblivion there is one that I would qualify as significant for our current purposes and that is beginning, or rebeginning. In the context of the current situation in Hungary, this term means a radical inauguration of the present and a denial of the past. “The emblematic ritual form of the beginning or the rebeginning would be the initiation, that under variable modalities, is always presented as procreation and birth. (...) The future to be found does not yet have a shape, or more precisely, it has the inceptive shape of the present,” writes the French cultural anthropologist, Marc Augé, who focused throughout his carreer on the relation between experience, locality and language. The new Hungarian