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...GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A surrealistic puzzler-or possibly a parable-about goatish activities on a far-out college campus that represents the modern world...
...Giles Goat-Boy, Barth...
...GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. All the world's a college campus, and practically every philosophy is in the pillory in this bizarre novel about a boy who aspires to become the messiah of a new religion...
...Giles Goat-Boy, Barth...
...addict of pop-psych, this exchange only raises the question of what the computer itself stands for. Machinery, according to some more-or-less-experts, "is always an alternate to sexual procreation." This idea is borne out by the current intellectually fashionable bestseller Giles Goat-Boy, in which a super computer gets pretty sexy with the coeds, and in fact sires the hero. Other theorizers, however, are not quite sure whether the computer is a father or a mother figure, or stands for Jung's "wise old man" in mechanized guise, or represents modern man's ultimate alienation...