Watching

There had been a psychologist that had stumbled upon the story during an early session with Wyatt while he was in college.  Delighted by the predictable cast--a son, a mother, a buxom stranger and a hired hand--and titillated by the explicit and central sexual themes, the young man had immediately peeled away most of what Wyatt had shared in the three prior sessions and narrowed his attention on what he considered the substance of the case.  In his own post-Freudian flip of language, the young psycho-therapist termed Wyatt's dilemma as "voyeur's alienation"  and "pornographic dissonance". In self-serving papers that he submitted repeatedly to the various academic journals, he put forward derivative theory that was both awkward and pedantic.  Arguing that everything from Wyatt's failing grades in chemistry and physics to his insomnia to his preference for comic books over literature was rooted in the young man's accidental viewing of a raucous sexual encounter between his brother and the war widow that lived that summer in dubious matrimony in the bunkhouse with the family's gruff and grizzled field hand Gilly.