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...economic consideration. We soon begin to realize the tacit commentary that is being made. The Wall is down, but westernization is not restitution enough, leaving more wanderers than homesteaders. Indeed, Schulze's world is more bazaar than bizarre. But this is hardly to say that it's bargain basement Kafka. Rummaging through the apparently artless language leads the reader to discover a finely crafted plot, a great conversation piece for years to come. But admittedly, some of the stories are more worthy of chit-chat than legend...
...While detailing the "Shoe Marauder's" m. o. is simple, explaining his behavior is considerably harder. Dr. Martin P. Kafka, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School specializing in sexual fetishism, says it's possible the man finds shoes and feet sexually stimulating. "There are men who will take shoes, sniff shoes and get sexually aroused by doing it," he explains. "Usually what they do is they collect shoes and they masturbate...
...Victims of the attacks say the assailant tended to be blatant. Certainly there must be more private places than the library for him to indulge in his pleasures. However, an element of risk is completely consistent with the idea of a fetish according to Kafka. "[The risk] is part of the rush that he gets and preoccupies him, but also gives him temporary relief from whatever's troubling him," he says...
...most effective form of treatment, Kafka says, generally takes the form of aversive conditioning. "They'll find a behavioral therapist who will draw up scenarios that will arouse the patient, but as soon as that happens, the patient smells ammonia," he explains...
Relativism brought the underground man into his own--in Europe, with Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Aichinger, Sartre, Mann and Pirandello; in America with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Ellison, Capote and Salinger. The antihero, too, searched for unified meaning, but the narrative that held him was all about divisions, schisms and self-inspection. He sought to be by himself, like a god. In Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities and Richard Wright's The Outsider, protagonists become serial killers out of the desire to be alone...