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3/20/2003

 

Vienna 1900: Theory of the Cafe Central

I have to thank Fortune for posting this link on her blog. It's a wonderful essay on people and a coffeehouse.
"It is a place for people who know how to abandon and be abandoned for the sake of their fate, but who do not have the nerve to live up to this fate. It is a true asylum for people who have to kill time so as not to be killed by it. It is the beloved hearth of those to whom the beloved hearth is an abomination, the refuge of married couples and lovers from the fear of undisturbed togetherness' a first-aid station for the confused who, all their lives in search of themselves and all their lives in flight from themselves, conceal their fleeing ego behind a newspaper, dreary conversations, and card playing, and press the pursuer-ego into the role of kibitzer who has to keep his mouth shut." "The Cafe Central thus represents something of an organization of the disorganized."





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