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Ian "Marvin" Graye GLOSSARY:

Agenora - Jocasta, mother and wife of Oedipus
Alma-matriotism - patriotism
Amaterasu - Japanese
Anchisides - Aeneas

Beist - Beat, Existentialist?
Belly - xxx
Bonifacist - Nazi, German
Botanical Garden - Eden

Cadmus - the founder and first king of Thebes
Cadmus College - Greek city of Thebes, founded by Cadmus (the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honour)
Campus Cantos - The Divine Comedy
Campus Riot I, II, III - World War I, II, III
Chancellor - President
Chancellor's New Gown - Emperor's New Clothes
Classmate - comrade
Classmate X - Khrushchev
College Entrance Riddler - Sphinx
Cum Laude Project - Manhattan Project
Curricularist - liberal

Dean o' Flunks - the devil

EASCAC - East Campus Automatic Computer
EAT - nuclear, atomic
EAT-wave - nuclear explosion
Eierkopf - Dr. Edward Teller
Enos Enoch - Jesus Christ
Entelechus - Aristotle

Failure - damnation
Fellow Scholar - fellow traveller
Final Examination - the Last Judgement
Flunk - damn, fuck
Flunkéd - damned, fucked
Flunkage - damnation, state of depravity
Founder - God
Founder's Scroll - the Bible
Frumentius - Africa

GILES - Grand-Tutorial Ideal, Laboratory Eugenical Specimen
Graduation - state of grace
Great Mall - xxx
Gynander - Tiresias

Informational Revolution - Industrial Revolution
Informationalism - capitalism

John the Bursar - John the Baptist

Laertides - Ulysses, Odysseus
Leonardi - da Vinci
Living Sakhyan - the Dalai Lama
Lost Professor - Dante
Lucius Rexford - John F. Kennedy
Lykeion College - ancient Greece

Maios - Socrates
Matriculation - Baptism
Maurice Stoker - Satan
Mid-percentile - middle class, bourgeois
Moishe - Moses
Moishians - Jews

Nether Campus - Hell
New Moishe College - Israel
New Tammany College - United States
New Syllabus - New Testament
Nikolay College - Soviet Union, U.S.S.R.

Old Syllabus - Old Testament
Original Sakhyan - Buddha

Pass - save
Passéd - saved
Passage - xxx
Percentile - class
Pre-Schoolist - Romantic

Quiet Riot - Cold War

Reg Hector - Eisenhower
Rematriculation Period - Renaissance
Remus College - ancient Rome
Riddle of the Sphincters - world riddle, riddle of the universe

Scapulas - Plato
Seminar-on-the-Hill - Sermon on the Mount
Shafting - execution
Siddartha - India
Siegfrieder College - Germany
Max Spielman - Ernst Haeckel ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" parodied as "ontogeny recapitulates cosmogeny" and "proctoscopy repeats hagiography")
Student - man, human being
Studentdom - humanity
Student-Unionism - Communism

Taliped - Oedipus
Taliped Decanus - Oedipus Rex (play by Sophocles)
Telerama - television
Town Hall - xxxx
Trang College - China

Unilateral fasting - unilateral disarmament
University - the universe, the world
University Council - United Nations

WESCAC - West Campus Automatic Computer

Compiled from own interpretation, wikipedia and "AUTHORIAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE FICTION OF JOHN BARTH" by OWEN MAHONEY


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