Martin tom Dieck's hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt - Coda

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1. the Speichestadt as drawn by Martin tom Dieck in hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt (Arrache Coeur, 1997);

2. the Speicherstadt as a heart in hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt's back cover;

3. said story's main character emerges after being violently thrown into the water (the flow of life?) by a godlike, Buster Keaton look-alike rainmaker demiurge;

4. "Quatre ans" (four years) as published in Beaux Arts Magazine, BD hors série: 32 bandes dessinées inédites pour 2004, 2003; the same story was published in Strapazin # 75 (June 2004) as the third part of "La FM";

5., 6. two illustrations from the Mutanten catalogue (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999): Christian Huth's Neoexpressionist "The Old Greece" (1998); Anke Feuchtenberger's hypnotic "Somnanbule 2" (page 2; 1999);

7., 8. two artists that recently published in Strapazin (images caught at their site: # 75, June, 2004; # 92, September, 2008): "Kalte Füsse" (cold feet) by Anna Sommer (who specializes in male / female troubled relationships); Peter Blegvad's Kosuthian "The Pedestrian."