Oh what a week.

Phillip Roth. Wow. More like Phillip Wrath. I imagine this was a good and solid goodbye to the sixties seeing as how it was published in 1969. I noted a boy in the class stating he was repulsed by the scene of Alex masturbating to the scent of his panties. No shit! Isn’t that the point? Roth (and his wrath) clearly use shock value as means of enlightenment. Sometimes people need cold water. Not everything is pretty and pink, right? His talk of masturbation is so excessive, that it becomes uncomfortably humorous, bringing me back to another topic discussed in class. Humor as means of bringing about a new found truth. It eases our fellow human into the new. Oh! and. What an Oedipus syndrome, eh? What a mother! Here we have the classic case. Mother does not like father. In fact, mother is repulsed by father. Mother praises son. Mother is overbearing. Son sees mother as queen of his universe. When watching “Running With Scissors,” I noticed some serious similarities. Especially topical themes such as masturbation, therapy, and the “Oedipus syndrome.” So much so, that I will be writing my paper around these two magical stories. Oh...what a week.