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the forty shillings, I would like to buy the Wieglebs, textbook for the natural
magic, twenty volumes.” She said, “I'm sorry, boy, I have sold it already.”
“No. What? You've sold it?” “Yes. I promised I would keep it for you, but
you are so late.” “Now, for heaven's sake, who bought it?” “Well now, the
other body who came along with you.” “Ah, thank you.” That was of course
a tremendous relief, wonderful, I went back out, I got on my bike, and now
I could pedal slowly back to Altmünster and see my cousin Martin.
There he was with the twenty volumes, Wiegleb's textbook for natural
magic. “Great,” I said, “Wonderful. You did it. I also have the forty shillings,
why don't we share it,” or whatever I proposed. Martin said, “No, you know,
I bought these twenty volumes.” I said, “Of course, you bought it, it is won-
derful, now we have the volumes.” “No,” he said “I have the volumes.” I
said, “What do you mean, you have the volumes?” “Of course, I bought
them, so I have these twenty volumes.” I said, “But, Martin, you don't know
what to do with that stuff. It's all physics.” “No, no, it's natural magic. I would
like to have the volumes. Of course, Heinz, if you would like to look at one
of them, one at a time, and things like that, I will of course allow you to
look at these volumes. You can borrow them, if you want to, and I will lend
them to you, no problem at all.” I said, “But Martin, this is utterly ridicu-
lous, I mean this is all physics.” “No, what, physics, schmysics, doesn't really
matter, it's the introduction to natural magic and I bought these volumes, I
paid for them, and if you wish you can look at them.”
So, this was a little bit of a letdown for me, and I said to myself, this is a
kind of a mean thing, he can't really use them, so I was allowed to look at
them. Of course, they have a wonderful—a whole volume for—the Index,
you can look up anything you want to, and you find the appropriate volume,
and things like that. So, anyway, this is the end of Instalment No. Two,
II-A, on the topics, on those twenty volumes.
Ok. Then, later on of course, we stayed together until the end of our high
school. When we were eighteen we graduated, and then we went our dif-
ferent ways; he went to the theatre, first to Berlin, worked in the movies,
with movie people, became an assistant to some of the very famous direc-
tors at that time, and I of course entered into the study of physics, at the
University of Vienna, and the Institute of Technology of Vienna, etc. etc..
So we were heading in different directions. Then, after a number of years
World War Two began, and the bombing commenced. I was staying in
Berlin. He, Martin, was unfortunately drafted, so he was a soldier with the
German army. But soon they found out that he could do more than just use
a gun or doing this and that. He could perform magic. So he became one
of the great performers of the German army, and travelled from France to
Russia to Serbia, to Italy, to this and to that, performing and performing
and performing. He never had to touch a rifle, except during boot training,
where he had of course to juggle around with those deadly instruments.
I, in Berlin, of course, was bombed out very soon, and lost practically all
of my topics. Some of them I could transport to an escape place in Silesia.
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