An excerpt from FISH OUT OF WATER

This excerpt is from Chapter 15 in my book FISH OUT OF WATER: A Search for the Meaning of Life.

Because I hadn’t been raised in a culturally sophisticated atmosphere, college was for me much more than academics. For example, for the first time in my life I saw certain movies like Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull and David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, both of which I still revere, the latter being almost shockingly Christian in its message. I also saw A Clockwork Orange, which I despised for the viole...