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GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A brilliant gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology and sex in which a goat (or is it a boy?) appears as the Messiah of a new religion...
Along comes a Messiah from the School of Animal Husbandry-a half-beast, half-boy called George Goat-Boy. The looping plot of Barth's intricate fable centers on George's struggle to be accepted as the new Grand Tutor...
Dylan obviously interests me as a potentil cultural Messiah; he just as obviously care how he interests me, or you. I trick public eyes and ears into attention were his goal. It does not seem to be do not seem to be public; his artistic in seems to grow even deeper. After a disappointment, one came come to his abstention from our purposes and categories; Dylan can stand as a figure for freed...
...injured by the drugs. Under the influence of LSD, nonswimmers think they can swim, and others think they can fly. One young man tried to stop a car on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard and was hit and killed. A magazine salesman became convinced that he was the Messiah. A college dropout committed suicide by slashing his arm and bleeding to death in a field of lilies. Says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen, one of the country's leading LSD experts: "If we can tolerate unsupervised use of LSD, why not Russian roulette? Or why not let children play...
...Timothy Leary, the ex-Harvard psychologist and psychedelic messiah, contends that the drug has "consciousness-expanding" qualities which stimulate "a religious response that is only understandable in terms of mysticism"; he believes that it should be available "for all." Other enthusiasts argue that laws banning possession of LSD would, under present circumstances, be as unenforceable as Prohibition. Though brewing the stuff is delicate and complex, requiring the skills of at least a college chemistry major, it can be concocted in any laboratory containing sufficient equipment. In New York State, which for a year has had a statute making possession...