On our last day we decide to return to Cafe Alt Wien, as my Russian friend wants to enjoy the delicious and very affordable goulash once more. Our Viennese friend had warned us that this coffeehouse was very popular among Vienna's artsy intelligentsia crowd, but what we had to witness here was too much: a man in his fourties, dressed in camouflage pants, sat along at the adjacent table, sipping the local beer EGGER reading Heidegger's 600 pagee long "BEING AND TIME". He did not look like he understood what he was reading, but who knows, this is supposed to be a coffeehouse for intellectuals. I decided to watch him closely, however, in case I get the chance to expose him as a fraud.
Some time later, the goulash still hasn't been served, I glance over to his table once more, and I finally have evidence: by now, he had put down "BEING AND TIME", which I assume had been too hard to follow after several pints of EGGER beer and without the necessary philosophical grounding, and was now cheerfully reading the first pages of a book called "MIT KANT AM STRAND" (it translates as "On the beach with Kant" but sounds much funnier in German due to the rhyme. You can understand it as "Philosophy for dummies").
At this point our goulash was served, and we decided to dedicate our efforts to the lowest levels of Maslov's pyramid, unlike our neighbour.
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