Milk 'n' Kinsey.The Inner Circle * T.C. Boyle * Viking * $25.95 If Eve knew the seed structure and chemical composition of the apple, would she still get a thrill out of biting it? T.C. Boyle's beautifully realized 10th novel. The Inner Circle, is poised on the irresistible tension between innocence and knowledge. His narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. , John Milk, is a typical, sexually frustrated Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. student who feigns an engagement in order to enroll in professor Alfred Kinsey's famous 1939 seminar on marriage--complete with a slide show of aroused genitals that leaves everyone in the room on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of a dead faint. Later Milk consents to an interview with Kinsey and becomes his assistant at the Institute for Sex Research. As Kinsey's disciple, Milk is not only trusted with the profiles of thousands of research subjects but is encouraged to explore his still-unfolding sexuality--with Kinsey's wife, with Kinsey himself, with an exciting cast of extras. But is the sexual behavior sexual behavior A person's sexual practices–ie, whether he/she engages in heterosexual or homosexual activity. See Sex life, Sexual life. of the "human animal" purely a matter for disinterested observation? Are the old boundaries of love and fidelity passe pas·sé adj. 1. No longer current or in fashion; out-of-date. 2. Past the prime; faded or aged. [French, past participle of passer, to pass, from Old French; see ? Boyle's portrait of Kinsey as a relentless, half-mad Ahab of sex research is brilliant, but it is the voice of John Milk that will stay with readers. His unworldliness--despite all he has seen and heard--is the perfect contrast to the high-minded hanky-panky of the inner circle. |
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