Il vero Alfredo

As these pages print it.

How Long a Table at Alfredo's Takes Out of a Day in Rome

No page used here states how long a table takes at Il vero Alfredo all'Augusteo. The restaurant is at Piazza Augusto Imperatore 30, in Rome. The splash prints the square and 00186 ROMA. A length of sitting is not among those lines.

The pages print days, years, and unfinished telephone lines. Friday and Saturday are the days for cocktails before dinner. 1908 and 1950 are history years. 2004, 2010, and 2011 mark pages, not a sitting. None of them is a number of hours at the table.

dining room with white tablecloths
The dining room, as the site prints it.

The pages never print a length

A length would be a number of hours, or a start and an end. The lines used here have neither. The splash has an address, a broken telephone, a bare fax slash, and the caption Alfredo III°. The history page has Ines, 1908, Via della Scrofa with no number, the square with 30 in 1950, Armando as Alfredo II, Alfredo III, and Umberto's moustache. None of those phrases is a duration.

The English frameset prints 00186 ROME and Tel. +39 06/ - +39 06/. The 2010 frameset prints 00186 ROMA and Tel. 06/68.78.734 - 06/68.78.615. Digits appear. They are a postcode and telephone parts. They are not hours. Reading 68 as a length would misread the 2010 telephone. Those digits are not on the splash, and they are not a timetable.

The menu price 23,50 is not a duration either. It sits on Costoletta di vitello alla Sassi and nowhere else. A price is not a length of time. The English line Veal chops Sassi style has no price and no hours. The valigetta line adds no hours either.

Friday and Saturday are days

The aperitivo pages name Friday and Saturday. A day is not an hour. Two days are not a length of one dinner. The Italian page /aperitivo.html and the English page /aperitif.html match. Both name those days. Both name cocktails before dinner. The match does not add a clock time that neither page prints. No third day is named.

Before dinner orders two events. It does not time them. Cocktails, then dinner. No minute count sits between those words. A span brought in from outside the page would be an invention. None is brought in. The printed words stop at the days and the sequence. The splash fax slash does not hide a minute. The length is still unprinted.

The note on Friday and Saturday stays with the match across languages. This page uses that match for one purpose. It shows what the site does say about time, which is the names of two days, and what it does not say, which is how long the table takes. The languages match, and the length is still missing.

Before dinner is a sequence

Sequence and duration are easy to mix. Sequence says what comes first. Duration says how long something lasts. The aperitivo lines say what comes first. They do not say how long either part lasts. Dinner is named only as the later event. It is not given a start, and it is not given an end. The word before does that job and then stops.

The history page has a sequence of its own. 1908 comes before 1950 in the years it prints. Via della Scrofa is the street with no number. The square with 30 is tied to 1950. That is a sequence of addresses across years. It is not the length of one evening at the later address. A move in 1950 does not time a sitting. The missing o in Alfred II does not time one either.

The note on the evening builds the evening from the square, the caption, and the days. It still does not produce a number of hours, because the lines do not have one. The evening remains a place and a pair of days. The place is Piazza Augusto Imperatore, 30.

1908 and 1950 are not a sitting

1908 belongs with Ines. One printing writes Alfred II and leaves out the o. 1950 belongs with the square and the 30, and with Alfredo III. The gap between those printed years is not a measurement of dinner. Subtracting the years would invent a statistic the pages do not print. The years stay as years. They are not converted into hours.

Alfredo I, II, and III are a sequence of names. Armando is named as Alfredo II, with the o, which is not the same string as Alfred II. The names mark people on the history page. They do not mark courses in a timed meal. Umberto's moustache is a history detail. It is not a minute hand. The golden fork and spoon are already part of the restaurant story. They are not a timer.

Piazza Rosa, the photo alt, is not the Augustus square. It is also not a time. An alt that names a different place does not name an hour. The duration is not printed at all. That difference is the point. A missing length is a blank.

2004, 2010 and 2011 are site eras

2004 is the era of photo pages such as /frame/foto/Kennedy.htm, /frame/foto/johnson.htm, /frame/foto/bush.htm, and /frame/foto/disney.htm. 2011 is the gallery /galleria/index.html, with Personaggi and about 58 named entries. The gap between 2004 and 2011 is a discrepancy between lists. It is not how long a guest sits. The reason for any absence is not decided here. No visit date is added.

2010 is the frameset at home.htm. That page prints the telephone digits the splash does not print. A frameset year is not a reservation length. The English frameset title THE REAL ALFREDO ALLA AUUSTEO misses the G. A missing letter is not a missing hour. The typo and the missing duration are separate gaps. One is a spelling. The other is a number the pages never give.

The gallery labels I Reali di Spagna and I Reali di Svezia name royal parties, not a length of visit. PAOLO ROBERTO FALCAO and PELÈ ARBITRO COELHO are football labels, with no match date. Eras of pages are not those dates.

The unfinished telephone does not add a time

The splash telephone breaks at +39 06/. The line does not finish a subscriber number. The fax is a bare slash. The English frameset repeats the unfinished prefix twice. The 2010 frameset prints two fuller numbers, and those digits are not on the splash. Even the fuller numbers are telephones, not opening hours. They do not say when Friday starts. They do not say when Saturday ends.

The note on the telephone keeps the three telephone printings apart. The note on the square keeps the address printings apart. Neither page has a duration to lend. The square on the splash is Piazza Augusto Imperatore, 30. The city word is ROMA on the splash and ROME on the English frameset. A city word is not a clock. The 30 is not an hour.

What these pages show of a day in Rome is the address, the days named Friday and Saturday, and the cocktails before dinner. What they do not show is a printed length for the table. The place is fixed on the splash and in the 1950 sentence.