Thus began our relationship with him. As many as four weeks of almost complete idyll. There were, of course, moments that sometimes spoiled the overall surroundings, but as for me, they were not worth a damn.

For example, I withstood a whole fight over his unwillingness to drop me off at the subway on my way to work, but then my intransigence was of such magnitude that it took just a couple of hours to defend my positions.

Wulf also about ten days later began to put pressure on me so that I would go to work as a manager in the main building. We argued for several nights in...