For example, you sit in an office in Pennsylvania for years and run a powder coatings factory, you go on this journey, you suddenly forget powder and factory and Pennsylvania and then you run a turtle hospital in the Florida Keys. Or you’re a reporter at stern, following in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway in Key West and soon dreaming of becoming an old man by the sea here. But because everyday life and the editors call you back, you then sit in the Hamburg drizzle again, dream away and write this text full of melancholy.

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