Ooh, I hope it's sex...
I think I've hit a new level of maturity in the world of academia. I just got the go-ahead to write a paper concerning the role of The Journey in selected works of Terry Southern. I’ll be focusing on Candy, Barbarella, and Easy Rider. The topic of “The Journey” in anything makes me feel a bit grown up in itself, but the subject matter of Southern’s work is a whole other issue. For those of you who don't know much about him, let me just say that the final scene in his book, Candy, involves a young woman simultaneously being penetrated by her estranged father and the nose of a Buddha statue that had fallen on her. The whole situation makes Barbarella look like a children’s book. And if you know anything about Barbarella, you know it is definitely not something for kids. At any rate, it should be an interesting paper to write.
