The Life And Work of Alphonse Kauders

Alphonse Kauders lived a strange life. The things he said were kind of morbid. The story pretty much led me to believe that he hated life in general. It mentioned that he was locked up in a lunatic asylum for attempting to molest children, but I think he need to be there for more than that. He's whole mind set was off. Who really memorizes 50 pages of a phone book. Maybe that is why he hated life so much. He spent it doing meaningless things. Over and over he said that people shouldn't be able to talk. Which is crazy because that means he just wanted to live in silence with no interaction with the outside world. Yet he talks about his many wives and girlfriends that he had throughout the years. It seems like he just wanted to use them to satisfy his physical desires but really didn't want anything else to do with them. I still don't know if Alphonse Kauders was a real person or just made up. It was different how they just listed all the things about Alphonse Kauders. Who picked out what they thought was important or not? I still have no idea how they said this peice of work has been viewed as influential.