John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" is being performed very very slowly in Halberstadt, Germany.
It is a rather strange little town (really cute medieval town center though). When I first arrived I bought a piece of strawberry cake thing from a bakery. When I asked the cashier for a fork she seemed insulted and waved me away. Later, when I ordered a "turkish pizza" out of curiosity at a glum little kneipe I was handed what was essentially a burrito but longer and narrower, pretty much one of the most phallic things I've ever, um... paid for? The woman instructed me to "eat it like a banana" and then added "See! You don't need a fork!"
Halberstadt is, apparently, a town without forks.
So that was my outing for today. Tomorrow I take a tram to a train to the S-bahn to a bus to a plane to a train to a different S-bahn and end up in Vienna.
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