In a conversation on December 30,
2012, my sister-in-law mentioned Tenerife out of the blue: "It's strange;
nobody is going to Tenerife anymore". I was reading Contempt by Jussi
Adler Olsen on that day. Two hours after the conversation, I’ve read that
someone was flying to Tenerife. I opened the book In Hazard by Richard Hughes
and found on page 125 the word "contempt", yes the word magnetically
attracted my attention. My sister-in-law asked me if I had use for a Nokia charger.
No, not me, but three pages further on page 266 of Jussi Adler Olsen's
Contempt, an old Nokia phone needed to be charged. Yesterday or today I’ve read
From Rösrath to Tenerife (report by G. Schwarz in the Eifel part of the
Kölner-Stadt-Anzeiger of 32.12.2012 / 01.01.2013, p. 7).
And if someone still claims that
there is a city called Bielefeld* or that John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert,
and Martin Luther King are not victims of a conspiracy, then he should stay
silent.
24.11.2016:
Once I came to Nice and thought
that a friend living there had been visiting someone in Spain. I wanted to
leave a message and went to the nearest post office to get a piece of paper -
there I’ve run into her. She, however, thought I was traveling through England.
Another time I had been briefly
in Berlin and took the subway from the airport to the city - there I’ve met my
cousin, who went to work.
19.03.2018:
I was driving home from work and
listening to a radio station, which sometimes plays older songs like this
evening. They played This is not America by David Bowie. I hadn’t heard the
song in a long time and have been fully in the mood for it. A Chris Rhea song
would have done as well. At home the song still had been active in me. I took
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø and resumed reading at page 309. Well, at page 310 I’ve
read: “ From the living room up the stairs he could hear David Bowie
erroneously insisting ‘This is not America’.”
* “The Bielefeld Conspiracy
(German: Bielefeldverschwörung or Bielefeld-Verschwörung) is a satire of
conspiracy theories that originated in 1993 in the German Usenet, which claims
that the city of Bielefeld, Germany, does not actually exist,[1] but is an
illusion propagated by various forces.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy
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