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It was the evening of August 13, my only night in Vienna. I had just consumed a tasty slice of chocolate cake (not too sweet, in the Viennese style) at the Salzamt, in the city’s cobblestoned Bermuda Dreieck district. It was late, and the shops were all closed. I walked by one named Galerie Image, selling paintings and prints. Something oddly familiar caught my eye:
I don’t know who the artist is, but the drawing’s not bad. It’s a little difficult to read the text from my photo, but I’m pretty sure it goes like this, from top (that is, most incomprehensibly remote) to bottom:
ANTARKTIK
INDISCHER OZEAN ATLANTIK
Capetown
SIMBABWE
St. Helena
UHURU
Djibouti Timbuktu
MITTEL MEER
WIENER BERG WIENER WALD
GÜRTEL
RING
STEPHANSPLATZ
—Martin Schneider
Comments
I’ve got a T-shirt like that for Firenze.
Do you have a digital camera? :)
Yes. I’ll send the photo to emily at emdashes.com, unless you have a preferred address.
Swell!
martin at same would work as well.