This is the day before last... My before last letter. Things are ending in a strange way. It is a day before I fly to Tokyo to maybe end my flirtation with Hermes, which means that I might be performing the last time as "Hermes Mistress" and will end the spiral of my dress in the Spiral Garden in Tokyo. For one of those travellors to the East, for the "Morgenlandfahrerin", who was travelling West since September 1994 from Berlin, Bonn, London, New York, Los Angeles, it is very meaningful to have this opportunity and I feel lucky that this piece might be ending where it mentally started. I was a couple of months ago discussing with a friend that I wasn't very happy to do the Olympic Mammut Marathon, the "Glassbeadgame - Blues of Appearance" before "Hermes Mistress" was ended. One suggested to leave the spiral open...I don't think the spiral is closed when it arrives in the center though. I think "Hermes Baby" has done it's job to download whatever it could. Now the new Power Babys are out and I wonder what this changes in terms of our capability of thinking, digesting information, materializing it or collecting it. Will history and language processing be perceived in a different way, making us able to maybe live more within the moment instead of bending down to the future? Will information processing be different since it is going faster with more commodities. He just downloaded a program for me to try out wether I like it or not. It is a program were you are able to find a sentence or a word within any file on your harddrive. I started to play with it and searched my whole harddrive for the word "scheinen" and "erscheinen." "Appearing" I am going a step away and towards the new language machines and might fall into a blues of appereance. What if printed thoughts get spun and woven together into a magic mantle, carrying me into foreign countries. It is 3.52, and I am slowly getting tired. This morning I managed to sleep until 9:00.