Dissecting the Madness That Is 'Trapped in the Closet': Chapters 23-33
When journalists write about R. Kelly's musical dramedy Trapped in the Closet, they tend to throw out a high-brow literary reference to demonstrate that they are intelligent human beings that just so happen to be exploring a subtlety free, it's-so-dumb-it's-brilliant work of art. I don't believe in that, but I must say that after chapters 23 through 33 out of the planned 85 chapter series aired over the holiday weekend, it's obvious that Trapped's biggest influence is Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman.
Tristam Shandy is of course a strangely humorous nine volume series — released over an eight year span — [...]
