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By the time Portnoy's Complaint came out, in 1969, it was clear--and this was part of the joke of the ice-skating scene--that people like awkward Alex were going to wind up ahead of the gliding shiksas and their halfback brothers, because they were more book-smart.
In the Portnoy household nobody played sports--bodies existed only to generate suffering--and there was only one thing that really went well.
Remember the scene in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint where the newly teen-aged Alex Portnoy goes to a frozen pond in his hometown of Newark to gaze upon gentile girls ice-skating?
Like Clinton, Portnoy is highly intelligent, mother-obsessed, and pretty much out of control.
For Alex Portnoy, athleticism was something alien.