city of ghosts

Just around the corner from my apartment is the Freud Museum. I’ve never been inside. That needs to change before I leave Vienna any time. In fact, many people come to vienna to visit the places of freud or to feel for anything from his spirit. Vienna is anyway a city where many people come to feel or be inspired by any sorts of ghosts – may it be Beethoven, Mozart, the emporer etc. Vienna is a city of ghosts. Well, the most citys are or rather, have his own ghosts. But no one is so much cling to its ghosts, as vienna. Actually, vienna define itself through its ghosts. As i said: Vienna is the city of Freud, Mozart, Beethoven, the emporer and what else. New York for example, is or has the image of the embodiement of the american dream – everything is possible there – and NY is the cultural melting pot per se. Vienna in the other hand, lives in the past and adapts itself to “the New” very slowly. In vienna you can’t make something of yourself, you just can be somebody. The golden age of vienna is gone.

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