biergartens and greek ruins

things not to forget about münchen:

germans really do (or did) have a hard on for the greeks\romans. nmice touch painting the temple in the park tho.

the englischer garten.... amazing. makes central park look like a playground.

drum circles, people, animals, bikes. culture.


but still being alone kinda sucks. spent the last few nights hanging out with felix or sara, or reading. so tonight was kinda weird. enjoyable tho. sausage, potatoes. weiße bier.

as far as the greek thing goes, we all know the Nazis, or Hitler at least, had a thing for the occult, and played up the whole pagan thing. this didnt mean, however, that the Nazis rejected christianty; on the contrary they embraced, and understood, the pagan origins of so much christian ritual, and where attemtping to approprioate it, or perhapos reapropriatwe it, into the German conciousness. Spending the last 4 days in germany, it has become obvious that the pagan origins of the german people, and the affinity for the greek, goes back much further than the nazis. (we of course knew this, as im sure sam is thinking blah blah blah, hegel, nietzche, heidegger, hölderlin, temples, the istar, classical education, etc etc.) it is realy overberaring tho, being around it all. münich is more traditional than berlin, altho the parks reallz embrace roman style. this is interesting to me, as the germans were always so proud that they, unlike, say the anglo-saxons and the normans, were never conquered by the romans, and thus there language hasnt been ´poluted´ by latin, or is at least more authentic. yet they wish to be the successdoprs to the greeks and romans anywaz.

ok, tzoo much bier. sleep now. vienna 2moro. Wien. should be fun. eis cream and kafee!