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there were coincidences and chaotic stabs into the flesh of
fate, I nevertheless said “yes.”
Money frightens, that's another one of its characteristics: it
arouses fear. It's as if its very origins evoke crime, despite
the bank’s guarantee of cleanliness. The more money, the
more suspicion.
I sit up, get to my feet, put on my sunglasses, and pause in
front of the mirror hanging on the wallpapered wall of
room 308, Hotel Hamburg. Who do you look like now? Am
I sufficiently suspicious looking? Obviously not to the girls
lounging in their usual places on Davidstrasse, who readily
toss invitations my way:
“Komm schon, Blondy!”
“Komm schon, wir machen es französisch!”
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The docks of Hamburg, on the banks of the Elba, the
largest pontoon structure in Europe. St Michael's Tower
with its four clocks – the tallest clock tower in Europe. I