GRGR: need a page ref.

[Seb Thirlway]

From: Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com>


>Hi all,
>
>Back, oh, a hundred pages or so ago (calculating time by the
GRGR
>calendar), there was a short description of "what German boys
think
>about lying on their backs on the hillsides", or something,
their
>fetishes/masturbatory fantasies. Does anyone else remember this
bit? I
>would love if someone could tell me the approximate page number
for it.
>
>Many thanks,
>Jeremy


Yep.  It's part of Leni Pokler's sorrowful exasperation at Franz:
p 162.

Since it's a great bit, here it is in full...

'She has talked to psychiatrists, she knows the German male at
puberty.  On their backs in the meadows and  mountains, watching
the sky, masturbating, yearning.  Destiny waits, a darkness
latent in the texture of the summer wind.  Destiny will betray
you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same detestable
Buergerlichkeit as your father, sucking at his pipe on Sunday
strolls after church past the row houses by the river - dress you
in the grey uniform of another family man, and without a whimper
you will serve out your time, fly from pain to duty, from joy to
work, from commitment to neutrality.  Destiny does all this to
you."

happy christmas...!



seb