Anni - The Perfect Wisdom Web

l e a v i n gh o m ebasically the ships all look very much alike, and the individualharbors are not different from one another either.I would not take a harbor tour like that so very often.We then went on a steamboat on the Elbe to Blankenese.The Elbe kept getting broader and broader at the end, sothat the shore was barely visible. The big sailboats lookedfine with their brown sails standing black against the sky.Lilo and I went down to the beach and lay on the sand.In front of us the water was quite silvery, and toward theother side it was completely dark.With Lilo I believe it is like this: we go along side byside, but between us there is a deep pit, and only at timesthere is a bridge across the pit where we find a restingpoint. Then each one continues on her own way. Thatevening was a resting point like that. I do not know howthis will go on. I can’t help it, but sometimes I just can’tfigure her out.That was our last night in Hamburg. I felt very uncomfortablethere. I had the feeling, what are you actuallydoing here? You don’t belong here. It seemed to me asif the business at the Stock Exchange was what constitutedthe nature of Hamburg. I was very glad when weleft next morning. I could not live there. I wouldn’t evenlike to be there for a month.The sea had a freeing effect after this constrictedfeeling. The ocean altogether is something so magnificentand powerful that it makes you forget everythingpetty and technical. There is such power in this elementthat you wonder that it does not simply crush such awretched little human ship to pieces and throw it out. I31