The Goat-Boy file by PAUL MAYERSBERG
Mr. Mayersberg approaches John Barth 's new novel Giles Goat-Boy by way of its concern with the giant computer WESCAC, and its obsession with classification. He sees the theme of the book as The Hero v. The Computer, and finds the battle against over-simplification by pigeon-holing mimed in Its own classification-defying structure.
