Misha Motherland!

The main character of Absurdistan, Misha Vainberg, is quite the odd one. He is very fat and thinks he is very phat. His obsession with food and American hip-hop and rap are very bizarre. The food obsession is almost a fetish in the way flashbacks occur and senses climax, and the Music interest is very odd for a rich Russian. Both could be summed up as a need for overstimulation, concentrating on the tastes of the food so much that his eyes roll back in his head and reveling in the blatant shiny 'blingity-bling-bling' and coarse language. I do not relate to this fellow, because I do not relate my father's nether regions to a turtle nor do i think fondly of memories of seeing it in the bath tub, mostly because it has never happened, and also in part by the fact that it is just very creepy to me. It could be a cultural difference, but who knows? But his wealth and privelige is much greater than that of myself, and that distinguishing factor is what makes us different. that, and i dont max out the bathroom scale. and i can see it. But in all seriousness, Misha needs to learn that he must learn to fend for himself because since he has grown up with people managing the little things in his life for him, he hasn't learned to do that himself, and i personally think he is socially crippled. Misha is heavily influenced by the sense of companionship taught to him by his father, who undoubtedly formed a strong sense of sodality in his brotherhood of criminals and felons of the USSR. He always refers to his father as Beloved, capitalized. He has learned pride from this man, although he was not the one to 'earn' the pride through Glocks and blackmail. He has a sense of entitlement, a phrase that you dearest readers will hear me say quite often, and that is what i think is a fatal flaw.