I sat down at my desk, put a stone from Paxos on the HERMES flyer, and looked at the Vermeer girl in the postcard, the two books, and the print over the fireplace. The look on her face always made me think of Luise von Himmelbett who lived with me two years and left me nine years ago. There's a photograph of an olive tree among the stones of my desk; when Luise left she wrote on the back of it: ...  
  From The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban. --- Click on the olive tree on the postcard to find out what Luise wrote to Herman Orff ---  

Olaf Schneider (Nexter Tailor)