The husband goes to a diving-equipment store and asks about pressure gauges, not because he suspects foul play but because even foulness would be better than blind bad luck; his wife phones Andrea's girlfriend, of whose existence they were unaware, and asks to meet her.
But the narrator felt that K. was turning against him, allying himself with the father: "In that foul air I felt him identify me as foulness.
The pursuit continues.Yet it raises a curious doubt: is it worse to kidnap a newborn babe, which will then live, than the quite likely alternative, given the foulness of those days—simply to murder it?
A history of caricature published in 1904 suggested that his pictures came from an unclean and unbalanced mind and symbolised "the moral foulness of the age".
It is difficult to decide what tone to adopt when speaking of organisations that spew foulness for a living, and then employ their free-speech rights to advocate for their interest in spewing more of it.
It was about getting away from the foulness that was me".
Like Peter Finch in "Network," he has visions of foulness and disaster and makes apocalyptic pronouncements.
What is unusual is not the presence of these themes but the book's complicated embrace of "foulness," and a barely suppressed longing for punishment, a longing embodied in the narrator's relationship with Mitko.
