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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.”