CHARACTERS.

At the text appear hardly features of characters. But I was able pick up some of their.
Joe is the third character who the story goes around. He dictated poetry, he was a pleasure seeker. I think that the narrator chose the Joe’s laughter rather than the reader.
“You offered me the desert, and Joe offered me the decadence of Budapest”
The reader offered her the desert, the peace between the stresses of Budapest. “The mountains and the desert you gave me stayed with me for a long time. Sun. Space. Smooth stones.” He or she has green eyes and a healing smile. He was always ultra-sensitive to teasing; puritanical streak and a very well-defined sense of morality, but Budapest change it.
The last character is the author. She relates the story; all that we know is because of her answers and questions. According to her Budapest possessed her. She involved with alcohol, poetry and wilful scribes. She felt trapped