In Bread and Swans, Pfirsich meets Adolf for the first time – and they both nearly get sick.
It’s not that they know anything about each other, not really – this is early 1940′s, and the Hitler Literature Industry was far in the future. It’s purely instinctive, based on personal odor, or pheromones. I’ve seen (smelled) that at work, and it’s powerful.
Some people are like that. They just don’t *like* eachother and would rather see the other person in the far opposite end of a room. Behind several thick iron doors.
It’s probably Pheromones. A young priest at our church and I couldn’t stand each other, and I was only a child. We were only like that right next to each other, and were confused when we were distant; you could see it in his face: “WHY do I think anything about that child and why is it so bad?”
Maybe Pfirsch has anti-gaydar and can sense Adolf’s intolerance.
Or maybe it’s just they don’t *like* each other, as KS Claw said.
Well, Adolf doesn’t now Pfirsich’s gay; how could he? No, they just don’t like each other. You know how it is; sometimes somebody we just met just makes us back off. It works the other way, too — it’s really love at first smell.