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  altstadthof

Whenever PARKING NON-STOP find themselves making field recordings in Franconia, they never fail to call in to the ALTSTADTHOF in Nürnberg's old town, where they will while away the evening enjoying the wonderful selection of traditional German beers, brewed on the premises. The establishment's homemade onion soup is highly recommended, and what better way to round off the evening than with a glass of the Altstadthof's special beer spirit, distilled from their own beer in their own distillary.

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Contact details:

Bergstrasse 19/21

D-90403 Nürnberg

tel/fax: +49 (911) 2 44 98 59

email: info@altstadthof.de

www.altstadthof.de

   
 

"Street," to be understood, must be profiled against the older term "way." With respect to their mythological natures, the two words are entirely distinct. The way brings with it the terrors of wandering, some reverberation of which must have struck the leaders of nomadic tribes. In the incalculable turnings and resolutions of the way, there is even today, for the solitary wanderer, a detectable trace of the power of ancient directives over wandering hordes. But the person who travels a street, it would seem, has no need of any waywise guiding hand. It is not in wandering that man takes to the street, but rather in submitting to the monotonous, fascinating, constantly unrolling band of asphalt. The synthesis of these twin terrors, however - monotonous wandering - is represented in the labyrinth.

Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Harvard U.P. 1999).


   

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