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Amsterdam Mime Regardless of the language, we understand the street performer who communicates with pantomime and light humor. This gentleman has worked the Dam Racht in Amsterdam -- one kilometer from Central Station -- for 10 years. He sits motionless... frozen in place... until a tourist deposits $1 FGL (1 dutch guilder = $2 US) into his guitar case. This payment animates him for the one minute his music plays. When he finishes, he holds his pose, returning to his stoic penny-arcade posture. From this affectation, here he gives me a wink to acknowledge our 7 A.M. half-hour conversation earlier that morning. It is at this time each day that he cleans his sidewalk preparing for "work." |
