Made out of people

You are in a maze of twisty little streets, none quite the same

I just spent this afternoon saying "farewell" to Copenhagen by getting lost. This isn't too surprising, really: Demark welcomed me by getting me lost; I've periodically greeted it with (guess what) getting lost, and I may well get lost tomorrow morning running errands before I leave town.

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For a town where nothing is very far from anything else--and it really isn't, this place is a brisk fifteen-minute walk from one end to the other--the roads in the middle twist an awful lot. For example, Louise's place is right at the bottom of one of the major pedestrian paths, which runs (roughly) at right angles with the next major path over. Most places that I've walked to seem to be on that second path--and that's the one I keep finding myself on.

And somehow, the easiest way to get between them keeps turning out to be to just to walk up the one, walk left half a block and turn, and walk down the other. Now, when Louise does it, anywhere on the one path is a two minutes away from the other. (This town really is really small.)

Euclideans will note the probable existence of a hypotenuse. City streets are non-Euclidean, but they are also also highly interconnected. Indeed, Louise's two-minute path suggests that it's not hard to get from one to the other.

Louise apparently has the ability to bend space and time.

Today, for example, upon discovering myself on the major path, I turned LEFT at the church, RIGHT at the Arabian restaurant, and ducked THROUGH the dogleg footpath UNDER the apartment building, then LEFT on the major road. Which, dammit, twisted hard left, and so I turned immediately RIGHT on the minor road (where did that come from?) and found myself completely turned around ... and on yet another parallel road.

Fortunately, I could get back easily along that parallel road, and proceeded to. It took barely five minutes.

Ok, enough of that. It's time to go see The Wild Bunch subtitled in Danish at the film institute. I just turn right at the corner...