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Fences make good neighbors. However this encumbrance was unique in the annals of historic time. This fence was to keep people in and not out as was customary. Quite de-evolutionary and unconventional it was. Personally I never liked fences as I have said, and we had trees and shrubbery for fencing or dividing line, but if you are going to have a fence, for God's sake, let it be to keep people out not in.

So we have the ins and outs right-in the open countryside, like keep away, a game of blind-man's bluff, double solitaire. The split was through the north of Germany, the heart of the Nazi mind, with Berlin a small dot in the East German Yin Yang countryside, an island like Cloud Nine, and where the business between the west and east was done.

The country has been very nice since Mons, hilly and pine forests and neat farm land. The country in Germany was nice although, in general I didn't care for the German people so much. They are too conformist like Americans for me.

My reaction, as probably said in the earlier piece, was when standing at the double wire fence see-through, in the open country evening darkness, the guard tower down the line, my thoughts were of trying to get in and out again, without getting caught. Guess I took a double track, and saw it the same, as from either side. So what was different ? Who the guard was and what was he guarding. Guards guard Ins and Outs; keep them in or keep them out. These were Keepemins. Definite double trouble psychology of the Keepemins and outs; keepers - weepers.

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