“Amster-” was never invited, just “-Dam” because it’s more useful at protecting the city from the Zuiderzee sea.
Motions creating a lattice of chaotic design are etched by the weight of their progenitors into face of rectangular square, and to the invisible observer disguised in the crowd, everyday Netherlands culture abounds as easily whenever conversations spark between the intimate connections between people, or as a woman stands at a specific time when hour, minute and second intersect with exact precision to leave the National Monument for some unknown destination based by an imperative formed from the cognitive impression through socialization while living in Amsterdam- perhaps to board one of the many trams that travels through the square. Though rectangular in shape, it is no doubt a square in purpose; seen from the square while sitting on the steps of the National Monument, much like the seat of the pearl within an oyster in Netherlands, the world of Amsterdam is for the taking, Royal Palace, Madame Tussauds, New Church (Nieuwe Kerk), and all. And once every special day, 7-annually, a funfair worthy of international envy is held in the square where laughter can be heard from both children and adults as they surrender themselves to the joy of the moment. The square is quite simply a central point of human congregation, yet because of its basic, timeless function, it is where Netherlands culture can be recorded to memory as each era of culture flourishes then whittles, forever in a cycle of renewal.
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