Status Updates From La scuola cattolica

"Part II: Ch. 3
One kid plants an agave plant and two others drown it in bleach. So cold.

Part II: Ch. 2
Disparate reflections on the narrator's "pallid" and "ephebic" classmates.

Part II: Ch. 1
More puerile, Baudelairian thoughts on sex

Ch. 12
Seeks to anatomize the shifting culture of the 1960s

Ch. 11
It's one of these: “Evidently, he didn’t know Arbus well enough (Who can claim to have ever really known him, that young man? Not even I can boast that I understood him, and perhaps I won’t succeed, right up to the last page of this book)..."

Ch. 10
The authors spends most of his time deconstructing compulsory education

Ch. 9
The middle class anxiety about their own identity, eager for a self-awareness and immediate knowledge of both the poor, abject "Borgotaro" or the aristocratic heir

Ch. 8
Something about self-identity, assuming and stepping into it, cultivating it, purchasing it, rejecting it...

Ch. 7
Teenage body insecurity and adolescent trivialities. No idea who the narrator is or who they're talking to or has in mind.

Ch. 6
Focuses on athletic competition as a measure of manhood making fighting, conflict an exam or evaluation in and of themselves.

Ch. 5
Narrator climaxes to Boccaccio’s The Decameron, the meta-theatrical game is then assuring the reader that the onanism wasn’t some “literary contrivance.”

Ch. 4
a lascivious, little narrator

Ch. 3
So angsty. Reads quick but not very much like a novel.

Introduced to the titular private school, San Leone Magno, "the SLM." Unsure if the schoolboys mentioned are the perpetrators from the synopsis.

Begun tackling this giant. Already discursive and irreverent with a latent interest in violence.