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Klaus Friedrich had recruited him overnight to fill my place, which he couldn't - he failed a couple months later, after having written to my English business partners that it is him now in charge and that he would like to "commence business intercourse" with them - a phrase, that the English found hilarious and that gave cause to much laughter in London:
"Does he want to fuck us",
Was only one of the comments that mad it's rounds in the Market. You cannot say things like this to an Englishman - you can never live that down.
Then I rang Martha in France to tell her of my decision. She answered the phone.. a kind of babble came first out of her mouth, then words, clear words the she lost her poise and loudly yelled at me, told me that I would be running into disaster and that I would regret the consequences - she had widespread connections, she said. These were not hollow threats - I knew - after all I was dealing with “Lucifer’s Daughter” but I answered curtly:
“I’ve closed your credit card, the house will be sold, and as well I’m asking for a divorce.”
The consequences, Martha had announced, would be drawn out over many years, deceit, lies, threats and endless Tribunals. It would become a never-ending story, a lasting shadow was cast on my life. Martha would cling to the house and would not give it up. She changed all the locks to prevent unexpected visits from me and she would drive me to the limits of bankruptcy. But this was then in the future. As important and liberating as my decision was for my soul, it also had something ruinous in it, as I was to experience later. But in between life continued.
Rise and fall were twin stars inseparably linked to each other, An expression of the bi-polarity of the Universe.
Good cannot exist without evil.
oOo
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