Discuss your reaction to him in various modes: as a care provider with his patients as a parent and spouse as the public face of the Philpott. Near the end of Chapter Eight, Part IV, Goodman writes: "Robin's case against Cliff might as well have been a case against the status quo, an argument against the natural bumps and jolts of the creative process." What do you think of this statement, both as it relates to the action of the novel and as a theme? What is "the status quo" in a creative process? What influence did a place like the Philpott have on this process? Is there a place for creativity in empirical research?ĥ. Are there any parallels between love and science as both play out in Intuition? What do Robin and Cliff discover about the experiment of their relationship as it unravels in Part III of the novel?Ĥ. What did this backdrop add to the story? What might have changed if the action had been contemporary?ģ. Goodman's novel is set in the mid-1980s, and is rich with details that make it of that time. Is it an apt title? A great title? What role does intuition play in the novel and which characters display it? How?Ģ. The word "intuition" means something different to each reader: it has positive and negative connotations.
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