The noblest and most banal of all the professor's visitors is his psychiatrist, Dr. She has a nice girl's distaste for sexual experiment, but when she learns that his nurse's washing him excites him, her question and his answer parody and celebrate the bedroom conversation One of his visitors is his brave, banal father, who comes once a week and, "seated in a chair that is drawn up close to my nipple," reports the dull adventures of people who were once guests at the Kepesh's Jewish hotel in the Catskills.Īnother is his loyal, banal mistress, Claire. So the professor rants and reasons, or tells banal jokes to himself and those who visit him. Perhaps madness, an effect of having taught too David Alan Kepesh says-the central character in Philip Roth's new novella, "Theīreast." For reasons not altogether clear to his doctors-"the assault (some say) of a volcanic secretion from the pituitary of 'mammogenic' fluid"-Kepesh has turned into an enormous breast, round at one end likeĪ watermelon, at the other end a nipple that can hear and talk and feel sexual stimulation but never reach orgasm, forever howling "more!" Perhaps it's a dream, Kepesh hopes. Etter the banal than the apocalyptic," Prof.
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