Route
The route is a set, but yearly variable, list of bars and pubs, including the endpoint at Café Fiasco. Those who are considered fit are so-called brown places, bars and pubs that feature aged clientele, inexpensive beer and wood furniture that reeks of cigarettes, even though smoking was banned in 2004. An English language equivalent could be dive bar. In total, the number of places amounts to around 20, with the figure sometimes given as high as 30 (the 2006 count was 18), making the Tom Waits run difficult to finish due to the high amount of alcoholic beverages consumed even if each participant only consumes one unit at each stop.
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Famous quotes containing the word route:
“In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an eidolon, named Night,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule—
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of space—out of time.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)