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I met a guy actually in the early part of the last decade, who was born and raised in East Germany. He was working-class. He liked it. He called it gravy-days. Here now in America, he could not find a job. In East Germany, a job was guaranteed and there was free-education and health care. Rent was almost nothing. Not sure what if you didn't want the guaranteed job ?

And another guy earlier, before the wall was down, driving an East German car in San Francisco, the only one I had ever seen anywhere, strange-looking thing, and so of course I had to ask him what it was ? He was middle-class and educated; spoke almost perfect English. He said he had the most beautiful flat in East Berlin for almost no money-rent. Said he would have to go back just for that. Funny. A guy just yesterday said: "he knew someone from East Germany". "How was it ?" "It was great. We had free", what already said. "But he said, it was for lazy people. You didn't have to do anything. Everything was there", as what already said.

I went to Nurnburg having taken the autoban. I didn't have enough money to leave Berlin on Sunday. I had forgotten about the East German insurance road toll. I was going to Munich. I was camped one of these last nights and my stove went haywire so the tent burned down. I got everything out but my two pipes and tobacco pouch and a few other minor things. I may have lost the film of England and Ireland as well as East Berlin and the Wall. The one spool of film in the camera got rather warm.

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