5/21/2023 0 Comments The art of starving sam j millerWe have Sun Tzu, whom you mentioned, and the Buddha, whom Matt quotes often and seeks to emulate, but also more questionable models: Jack Kerouac and his buddy Neal, who are not, as Matt’s sister points out, to be admired for their love-em-and-leave-em treatment of women in the pre-Pill era. Any positive male role models here are distant, in books. Most of them are creeps, except for Tariq, whose father is another abuser, and Tariq turns out to be sexually repressed. Matt suspects the jocks of having hurt his sister, yet he is disgusted that he both admires and hates them. The father is an absent runaway who turns out to have been a wife-beater. LM: There aren’t a lot of positive male role models in the book.
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