Beginning to read faster now, finding the genuinely funny bits every few pages, like flicking through the New Yorker or Private Eye just looking for the cartoons. It's still a great sustained rant, reaching out beyond just the Jewish background. As one of the most famous and most quoted lines in the novel says:
"What I’m saying, Doctor, is that I don’t seem to stick my dick up these girls, as much as I stick it up their backgrounds— as though through fucking I will discover America. Conquer America— maybe..."
Roth, Philip (2010-09-07). Portnoy's Complaint (Vintage Blue) (Kindle Locations 2802-2804). Vintage. Kindle Edition.
I like that rage and that ambition, biting the hand that feeds you, not because you don't want to be fed, not because you want it to stop, but because of what the other hand is doing, all the seedy, small time and big time injustices perpetrated by, for example, a cunt like Cameron. That's always been my fallback position for the Tories, for the right wing - you have to look down on them with ridicule as well as dislike (not hatred - after all that's their trademark, their underbelly darkness).
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