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bottom compartment were the pair of very

questionable Halal chicken meal boxes. As the

thought occurred that my suspicions about Franz

and Islam were substantiated, the note on the

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refrigerator —magnetised with a picture of Franz

and Ellis standing in front of the Jardin Des

Vestiges (Garden of Ruins) in Marseille— was a

yellow post-it note with the words:

"Don't eat my Halal boxes of Chicken! I need to

do yoga in living rm, I booked it. Ellis"

From this it is clear that, in fact, the Halal

food in question was not Franz's but Ellis',

fortunately. All in all, the refrigerator was very

messy and clearly looked bachelor - esque. It is

obvious that Ellis had long since departed the

Islington apartment and into his life as the

microwavable meals show that he was mostly

eating such foods. The disorganisation

emphasises the bout of depression he was

suffering from. Particularly defiant in his last

interview, of Ellis leaving him and the then

impending divorce, he said: "Love is a wolf, I

never talk about such things but, we had our

different traits; I am more free spirited and she is

more Hitler-esque. My life is perhaps just less tidy

(laughs)." Of course this caused the impending

divorce to become even more bitter with Franz's

estate becoming a topic of even more anxiety after

the publishing of this comment. I should also

mention another sketch drawn on the yellow

post-it note that depicts a woman, we can assume

as Ellis, with a prominent moustache above the

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