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MUNICH
Jul 9, 2007 16:55:56 GMT -5
Post by Dave Besseling on Jul 9, 2007 16:55:56 GMT -5
GMT + 2 Europe Germany Bavaria 48 08 00 N 011 35 00 E . MUNICH . I was a teenage vicarious fascist – well, just for a minute; and I wasn’t quite a teenager but standing where the big man himself testified- it held me in it’s sway before the Quanta zipped up and pulled tight, and it was just a giant un-marching square again, significance silent behind the big Lion’s plight. Self evident he would just stare (you know, he’s just there- keeping the jive alive) Impervious the sun’s glares, unflinching, unblinking. Most definitely unwinking to history’s love/hate love affairs. There’re two of these things gargoyl’d on both sides. They digest their secrets, their burdens and their chides on this chiseled, marbled promenade. Right here where we are now: this is where the announcement was made: there was to be no Christmas in Europe this year. . They sit and assimilate at a pace worthy of geological flow, their growls but Bavarian wind whistling past them We can’t chip them out (like Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters), as much as we’d like to ask them just what they’ve seen and just what they know. . Across the way, just to the left- The unassuming almost art-nouveau door vault. Black and cold. Baroque ego-smoke weighs it all down without rope, once you’re in you can smell the yolk. It used to be vanguard; now it’s old. . Cherubim, seraphim, angles galore, laquered in what else but gold. Here, where they baptized their great Shaitan in the baptism bowl. . Today is father’s day in Deutschland, the dads get into their horse drawn carts en masse. Two kegs behind the horses’ ass, they pass a pint (ein masse ) to each leather pant clad son of BMW or Bayer or Porsche. They end up back at Marienplatz late afternoonish, trashed – worse for the wear, barely inviolate. Par for the course. .
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MUNICH
Jul 13, 2007 8:16:12 GMT -5
Post by Bobby Slais on Jul 13, 2007 8:16:12 GMT -5
Another great journey and pleasurable read Dave!
I really liked this line
"love/hate love affairs. "
Smiles! Bobby
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