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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...
Readers who take Goerner's word for everything will have to take it on faith. For example, those special engines that play such an important part in Goerner's closely cut puzzler were no secret at all. On the day after Earhart's plane went down, the New York Times reported that the Electra was equipped with two of the latest Wasp engines, capable of cruising speeds well over 200 m.p.h...
...with a homely example: "Is my act of flipping on the light switch the same act as my act of alerting the prowler, if in fact by flipping on the switch and illuminating the room, I do alert the prowler?" Although the question sounds as relevant as the medieval puzzler about how many angels can dance on a pinhead, Wiggins notes that it has highly practical implications in fixing intention and responsibility, and theoretical ones in helping to solve the age-old puzzler of free will v. determinism. Free will is back in philosophical style, and Wiggins concedes that...
...suitors are less satisfactory. Thomas Adams (Mr. Marlow) really must stop laughing at his own funny lines before tonight, and not all the woodenness of his movements is written into the part. His companion, Hastings (George Trow), is a puzzler to me; he has chosen to play the role as a thin-blooded, effeminate dandy, and that's not at all the way I read the part. I guess he does what he set out to do; I just think he's doing the wrong thing...