Troy Burroghs in Affshafenburg [#25]

The Troy Burroghs Adventures [Impressionist-Traveler]

Episode: #25

Troy Burroghs in Affshafenburg [West Germany]

I was over in West Germany a few months once, and I remember when I was stationed there in the l970s as well, man I had a blast, I mean blare-outs with a double TT. I was young, a little too much young for some folks, so they said, and said I was too much to the left side of life, if you know what I mean, and oddly enough them Germans chicks just dug me—the men pretended they didn’t understand me: my English, or German, and I pretended I didn’t understand German, and so we got along just dandy—maybe, just maybe we will never know, maybe, just maybe, neither one of us really wasn’t pretending, I don’t know and dont give a hoot…

as I was saying, about to say, I was in Ashaffenburg on vacation, with a big mother of a VVVVVVVVV…I stayed there by my little lonesome self for two big—and I mean bigg—weeks; the other reason I’ll tell yaw later: maybe. Anyhow, I went to its museum; I had been there before, as I first mentioned, but never to the museum, this time I wasn’t in the big AAAAAAAA for Army, I was on the mother of VVVVV’s [Vacation]. The museum had about four floors to it. It looked more like a castle than a museum; 13th Century I think. There I saw a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, something like that, only 10-left in the world. It was on display, and I looked at it. It was I think the translation from Latin or Greek to German. I had myself a 1967, VW, green automobile, I had it parked outside of the Castle. The castle was made out of pink or red sandstone. And I kept thinking, that the bible was very old, 16th century I think, and why did it, or why was it here of all places. I mean, it could have been in a hundred museums, like in Frankfurt, or Berlin, but here it was. It is funny how things haunt you. And so I dreamed about that Bible, and I was not a Bible totting Christian, I was a Christian, but only because my mother took the time to have me dunked in the Christian well when I was young. So here I am having dreams about a Bible in a pink castle, in Germany. I wonder if the Lord is or was trying to tell me something?

11/2002/Re edited 2/2006