28.11.2026
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#100 · Vienna · Quantity over quality

Slopfest #9 · 1935 · Vienna

Both Happened and Didn't

Until someone opens the minutes, Slopfest 9 is in a superposition of great and terrible.

Formal photo of a closed wooden crate on a café table, a waiter posing stiffly beside it with a Melange, a card on the lid: SLOPFEST #9
Formal photo of a closed wooden crate on a café table, a waiter posing stiffly beside it with a Melange, a card on the lid: SLOPFEST #9

Museum status: Declared a national treasure by the committee, unanimously, of one.

Venue
Café Museum, a sealed box in the corner
Attendance
0
Guest of honour
Lise Meitner (asked, reasonably, whether anyone had checked the box)
Fun fact
Attendance: 0 and 400, simultaneously

What happened

Edition nine took place entirely inside a large wooden box, which by committee rule was never opened. Tickets were sold, music was heard, and someone asked for another Melange. Lise Meitner, invited as guest of honor, asked whether anyone had checked. Nobody had. Hermine's minutes for the night consist of a single word: 'Probably'.

Elsewhere in 1935

Vienna-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposes his cat-in-a-box thought experiment to criticize quantum theory.

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