52 SOCIAL SCIENTIST catchy slogan 'Twilight of Life in the Homeland5 was floated for the purpose. Then came the really macabre suggestion which clashed in spirit and substance with the original idea. Vielbrand, the most astute businessman in the group, declared, "Space should now be designated for the reburial of bodies and bones ... I believe we can handle well over thirty thousand as a start. Economies of scale.555 This proposed necrophilia was pegged to the cause of uplifting the Polish economy with the help of the Deutschmark. Heated arguments followed with Alexandra Piatkowska laughing out aloud and asking cynically, "If this enterprise would improve the health of the Polish middle class?556 Her apprehensions were bearing fruit for she had asked her lover sometime back, "What should we Poles do when you fat moneybags come with Deutschmark?557 The outcome of the bitter struggle that ensued was predictable — the might of the marauding, transborder currency won. While 37,000 reburial applications with basic fees raised to 2000 DM were rapidly processed, a conscientious member Erna Brakup protested, "If reburial goes on here, ladies and gentleman, soon there won't be no room for real dead people ..You only get reburied if you^e rich and German. And the Poles make money out of it. But if you are a poor devil your bones can stay where they put them in bad times. There^ no justice to it55.8 Alexandra Piatkowska went one decisive step forward and said, "Disgrace has befallen us ...From now on the dead will be disposed of unconsulted. Greed and sacrilege have the upper hand. More and more German demands are on the agenda55.9 The most trenchant condemnation was voiced by the German Professor who before tabling his resignation outlined the immoral victory of the aggressive market in the following words. There is no point in dissecting his statement because Grass5 prose hits the nail on the head and reveals what the current phase of capitalism is all about, "Here and now the limit of the acceptable has been reached. This reburial business is thoroughly reprehensible, if not obscene. No, I no longer recognize our idea. What was lost in the war is being retaken by economic power. True, it is being done peacefully. No dictator rules, only the free market. Am I right, Herr Vielbrand? Money rules. Frau Piatkowska and I both regretfully must draw the line. We resign55.10 In one of his many interviews Professor Amartya Sen observed that statements made by creative writers in their texts often communicate the reality more effectively than prolix economics. He told me, "Often we (economists) miss the forest in pursuit of the trees, and sometimes literary remarks bring us very sharply back to