Word: goatishly
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Various clues-the single mistress, the lack of names and characterization, the fact that each of the four artists withers or dies after reaching renown-suggest what the author is up to. Goatish carnality is occasionally his medium, but he is writing about the mysterious web of past-present, the great arcs of possibility that bemuse a boy and, broken, haunt a man. His six characters are the mislaid and scattered pieces of one, the teacher who dreamed of painting, wrote a little, had a talent for music...
...were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Tut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A huge surrealistic puzzler-or possibly a parable-about goatish activities on a far-out college campus that represents the modern world...
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, by John Barth. An infinitely involved and dazzling fantasy cum parable about goatish (or maybe human) goings-on at an institution of lower learning that represents the modern...