55 - Kommissar Knolle returns

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#55 by deer prudence.

 

"I suspected something like this all along …"
"Very keen-witted, Mr. superintendent!"

 

 

 

 

(Sorry for the long delay …)
"What's the meaning of all this?"

 

54 - Gutenachtgeschichte (bedtime story)

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#54 by Katrin Merle.

"… and Little Marty lived happily everafter as the king of Bielefeld
and if he's not shrivelled up by now, he still does so today.
The end. And now go to bed!"

"One more,please, please!"
"Yes, please, one more!"
"Okay then, just one more. Once upon a time there was a malayan tapir …"

 

53 - hair

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#53 by deer prudence.

 

"Oh finder of the chin hair - we worship thee!"

Little Marty (like all of us) didn't know what to make of it all …
"…interesting …"

52 - Bielefeld

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#52 by Katrin Merle.

"Hey, you've got a hair on your chin!"

Unknowingly, Little Marty had discovered the legendary town of Bielefeld. So it did exist after all!
Would the world ever learn about this?

51 - Kumpel (buddy)

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#51 by deer prudence.

"Hey Buddy, what's up?"

Is Marty in great danger - or has he just made new friends?
(…and how is all this connected to Bielefeld?)

50 - underworld

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#50 by Katrin Merle.

 

"There is so much more unterneath the surface … much much more than you suspect"

40 - bowling

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#40 by Katrin Merle

"It's been a long time and they were happy to have met again.
They decided to revive old rituals by bowling like they used to in their flat-sharing days.
Too bad for Tokyo!

"strike" - "I wanna do bowling again, too"

39 - there goes tokyo

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#39 by deer prudence

"A unique spectacle of nature, isn't it?"
"Remarkable, indeed!"

9 - Hawaii-Brüder

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#9 by deer prudence

"Allegedly, the Hawaii Brothers did not know what had happened to Ingo. Kommissar Knolle did not buy it …"

7 - don't drink and drive

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#7 by deer prudence

One has to drive them all home.

6 - Humtata und Polonaise

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#6 by Katrin Merle

There is no translation for Mettigel (I hope so).

5 - a party

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#5 by deer prudence

not so alone

I don't see any reason to freak out like this. Calm down and think what it really means, you'll see it is a good thing.

First of all, this probably isn't new, it's well possible that it has been going on like this forever. Did it bother anybody before we found out?
Not really. See?

Next, they are not doing anything as far as we know. I mean, they don't seem to interfere. So where's the problem?

One may be inclined to ask what they're up to. Well, I can assure you, I've been told that they definitely have got their reasons to be here and do what they're doing, but it really doesn't matter much to us. It's best to keep calm and mind our own businesses, we wouldn't understand anyway, so I've been told. Why should we assume there is any danger?  Personally, I think it is an improvement.

Why?
Well, there are times in life when things don't work out that well, we feel down and depressed and all bad – and that is when we tend to think that nobody cares for us and we're all alone in this cold, not-at-all-caring world and that nobody is interested even if we live or die or what. You know that. Everybody does. Don't you, too, wish for somebody to be aware of you when you're down there in that dark hole? But now you know, they are there. Interested. Aware. Taking notice of everything.
It means we're not so alone.

And they don't interfere. But some people, sometimes, forget who they are and where they belong. There is a temptation to try crazy things, become all wild and mad and unreasonable. This is dangerous, it threatens the order of things. Bad things can happen. Now when they know there are these observers, that all we say or do is being noticed – I am sure it will make them think twice about trying things that are not normal.

Personally, I feel safer this way.

So, just because we don't fully understand what is going on and why, we don't need to be afraid. This is just fear of the unknown. Silly.

We should be happy to know that there is someone watching over us.

just watching.