At breakfast, Roderick sits with Molly, Anna and Natasha. They reminisce about their recent trip to Berlin.
"What is it about the Berlin Wall?" whines Natasha.
Roderick cocks his head. "Ummm..."
"I mean, what's the big deal? We keep hearing about the Berlin Wall this and the Berlin Wall that. I didn't see any wall."
Roderick has to admit that except for a short segment on Niederdorferstrasse by the Topography of Terror, they didn't see much of the Wall either. "I guess it's another one of those fake Berlin tourist attractions."
"Like the Schloss," says Molly drily.
"Or the Hall of the Hohenzollerns," says Anna. Though they searched Berlin from Amalienhof to Zehlendorf, they never did find the Hohenzollerns.
"Or the Kaiser Wilhelm Church, the Siegesallee or the Cafe Des Westens," says Roderick.
After breakfast, Molly sits down at the Bosendorfer and plays several of the Contrapuncti from J.S.Bach's Kunst Der Fugue. Roderick listens for awhile, then goes back to his room, and surfs online. He finds this nifty video of the Contrapunctus #9 on YouTube.
He continues to surf. David Cameron is in the news, after announcing that he supports a referendum on whether or not Britain should remain in the European Union. He watches this video.
"Nigel Farage is winning," he thinks.
At dinner, Natasha announces that she has solved the riddle of the Berlin Wall. "Mr. Gorbachev tore it down," she says proudly. "President Reagan told him to do it."
Of course, Natasha has no idea who Mr. Gorbachev is.
