Pushing The Boundaries

Finally, I started to catch on to the book, and the things that it talks about. As always, the first chapter is always difficult to understand because of the introduction to characters, ideas, etc. After reading the second chapter, I began to understand some of what was going on, and noticed that there was also a part of the chapter that I had never experienced before in a book. Metzger asks, "Anyone for Strip Botticelli?" (26). Maybe it's that I don't read enough books, or that I don't read the genre that demands this, but I had never read a book that has a sexual game, or sex involved in it. It shocked me because it really pushes the boundaries of what I had previously experienced. It was shocking and almost funny to read about Oedipa and Metzger's sex game. I liked reading about this because it showed me that literally anything can be put on paper into a book. I used to think that movies really were limitless, but books were more formal and had things that were 'off limits'. This book completely shows that I was wrong about what I believed because it talks about something that I considered out of bounds.