pointsman's dogs

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Yes, Christian, I read it back then but don't remember much from it.
Schneider didn't invent the wheel, but at least he predicted in another
book ("Der Mauerspringer"), years before this actually happened, the
falling of the Berlin wall, an event most of us ascribed to
a probability of zero ...

Greetings, Kai 



>
> 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.
>