The next project, Craftsman, Craftsman, was a disappointment. I also want to acknowledge the support I received from a great many individuals and institutions. In Utrecht, which seemed to me an intimidating metropolis but was, in fact, no more than a medium-size provincial city, we moved into a yardless two-storey upstairs apartment in Wittevrouwen, which back in those days was still solidly working class. He found a job as a waiter, spent a year in a drug rehab centre after being caught with a small amount of marihuana, and finally landed a job at the Norwegian Embassy, where he would remain for the next fourteen years, working himself up from messenger boy to office manager. Equally disgusted with himself, the uncle then falls into a depression lasting several days.
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