Chapter 24 Humor in Slovak Brass

one After the separation of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the capital is located in Bratislava, a place name that has not been pronounced smoothly in our mouths.The scenery along the way shows that it is still quite poor. The two companions came back after going to the street and said: Go and have a look, it is Europe after all! What is Europe?I look for it on the street.Is it gray wall Baroque?Is it the Parasol Café?Is it the steeple of the old church?Suddenly I stopped in awe: the iron cover of a real underground wellhead on the side of the road has been opened, and a repairman is crawling out with his head unhurriedly, but all this is actually a street sculpture.

Pedestrians who see it for the first time will be slightly startled, find humor in the process of distinguishing the true from the false, and then walk around happily. This kind of humor is old in the street, and it has reached a tacit understanding with the cafes in the front, back, left, and right. This tacit understanding has been established for a long time, so it is not cast by shiny steel but old brass. In fact, even if it is not a street sculpture, you can see this kind of ridicule and calmness that hinders people from walking fast everywhere in Europe. So I could find words to describe Europe.The so-called Europe is the idleness and humor cast in the street market with ancient brass.

Slovakia has been living in a poor state for a long time, but it can retain this deep style, I think half of it should be attributed to the artists.Artists dedicated such sculptures, and they themselves are like the repairmen in the sculptures, who have been quietly digging underground, dredging the veins of European civilization. two The city center of Bratislava is a pedestrian area. At dusk, it is full of people and full of splendor, which is not inferior to cities in developed countries. However, the pedestrians here are too beautiful, which means that except for the most confident lovers, other people have no leisure time outdoors; the pedestrians here are too young, which shows how history has treated the previous generation badly, making it impossible for them to lead the young The dog stopped on the street, and only left it to the children and grandchildren to go out to play.

Then, when it comes to the rich and poor in the world, bright youth is not enough evidence.Youth can cover everything, just like flowers and plants can cover barren mountains.The real wealth is hidden in the lazy eyes and deep wrinkles. Likewise, when looking at urban potential, a congested city center is not a sign.The city center is a vortex, spinning the weeds and filth to the outer edge.The real potential flashes under the window sills in the alleys and in the gardens in the suburbs. Bratislava belongs to the beginning of the spring tide, and it is a brilliant start, which cannot but show a state of concentrated consumption and performance.If the social development is stable, decades later, today's young people still dare to show their faces when they are old, and their children and grandchildren also have time to relax in the streets. The combination of the two will be much more plentiful than today's scene.

But the strange thing is that I have seen in some fully mature European cities, except for travelers, most of the people sitting on the street are old people. Where have their young people gone?Probably each has its own place to go, such as the beach, but I just don't want to go shopping or sit on the street.They gave the street to grandpa and grandma. Therefore, as far as the city is concerned, if everything you encounter is young and beautiful, it must be that the fire is not yet ready, and the strings are not in harmony. It's like writing. When adjectives are like girls putting on makeup, and parallel sentences are like lovers side by side, it must not have entered the way of writing.The acme of the article is like dredging the trees in the old street, the old seats under the trees, and the chats between the seats are exquisite and loose.

The same is true for the article on cities.