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in the marketplace, workers set up bright carnival stands, rides, and beer stalls. all of them are airbrushed with every color of the psychedelic rainbow and the colors take shape in nightclub dancers, dragons, wizards and giant smiles.

monday morning, catholic germany explodes in debauchery and joy.

the large stock exchange building has this sign plastered to the somber exterior:`Helau!´

the black, dominating windows like darth vader´s summer retreat look out from around the colorful mask as wicked and leering as any window that´s tinted so dark one doesnät know who is behind the glass, leering at the naked drunkenness in the streets.