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FLEA MARKET (Flohmarkt) &
KETTENBRUECKENGASSE (Subway station)
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Little Nicholas Easterling (who in fact wasn't
Nicholas at all) showed the place to Harry Radcliffe in Outside
the Dog Museum |
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He took my hand and led me to a building nearby
that turned out to be a subway station -- Kettenbruckengasse.
Without stopping, Nicholas started to climb up the side of it
and I went right up after him. With all the commotion of the
flea market, only a couple of laughing punks noticed. |
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| A subway glided to a stop below us. Standing
on one of the three graduated roofs, I looked down and watched
the doors of the dirty silver train open. |
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"That's the flea market down there, see?"
Hard to imagine a more frantic, colorful scene than where we
were, but one roiled only a few feet away. In a giant parking
lot adjoining the Naschmarkt, Vienna's Saturday flea market was
in overdrive by the time we got there. Thousands of people milled
and looked, bargained and dealt in an irresistable thunder of
language and noise. Everything was for sale, everyone had something
to say. |
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