so I faced the sometimes annoying demands of my fellow world and followed the given paths of knowledge with more or less success. Even as a schoolboy I was already working as a bicycle mechanic, weed picker in the beet fields of the Rhineland, can opener in the ketchup factory, porcelain burner, asbestos plate manufacturer, piano mover, moped dealer, was a construction worker, industrial cleaner, private tutor, storyteller, pilgrim and dancer at noble balls. The jungle did not reveal its secret.