Word: codicils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaves a final obfuscation in a codicil modeled on the apocryphal Book of Revelation. Goat-Boy ascends a hill beyond Founder's Rock and, in an exploit of mystical sex, with his male parts wreathed in mistletoe, splits the rock and sounds a new and enigmatic dispensation. In this veiled and quite possibly diabolic climax, Barth offers one glint of hope. Goat-Boy leaves behind his son Giles-whose mother was a coed who took too literally the injunction to "love her classmate as herself"-to carry on the Goat-Boy religion and bring the New Curriculum to every...