pointsman's dogs

[Kumpe]

Hi,
reading Greil Marcus' "Dustbin Of History" (german version, ISBN
3-548-31225-X)I found a rather pynchonian story. On page 39 Marcus cites a
german author Peter Schneider  from his book "Extreme MittellageŠ" .
Schneider tells the story of the eastgerman watchdogs, who had guarded the
wall and were somehow resocialised by westberlin dog fans turning them
successfully into their pets. The dogs behaved nive so far. Only when they
crossed the former borderline, mostly inditinguishable for the humans, they
snapped back into thier patrol conditioning, and started to walk along the
former border. No visible traces of the wall left. (Schneider, Peter:
Extreme Mittellage - eine Reise durch das deutsche Nationalgefühl, Reinbeck
1992) Seems I don't care too much about the city I live in. Has anyone of
the german p-listers read the book? Kai, Otto?
thanx,
Christian.