No one can accuse me of the slightest misuse of my authority as the legal owner and publisher of the written—not the filmed—work entitled The Lost Daughter. I have not altered, deleted, or added a single syllable to the manuscript, despite the fact that the manner in which Aristides writes about the movie business—and especially about my person or the person of Horst-Jürgen Stoffel, doyen of the reconstruction of postwar German film, or for example the way he presents certain men like his Gerdjochen Witte, doyen of Witte Laundromats, when we know exactly who is concealed behind that pseudonym, namely, one of the most respected figures of Hamburg’s business community—would have caused anyone else to truthfully gloss over the bald facts. Unfortunately, the facts speak for themselves and against him. After all, it’s well known that in their politics our so-called intellectuals are more on the rosy-red left wing and therefore have no real contact with leaders of the business community. I hope I will be forgiven for this publication because Aristides’s manuscript is, after all, more poetry than truth. That is attested to by the testimony of a highly intelligent young man who unfortunately has not yet made a name for himself but surely will going forward, a certain Dr. Wieland Haslitzsch, PhD, professor of German, whom I have hired as an expert consultant on literary matters for INTERCOSMIC LITER-ARIA. He writes, for example: