What Rough Beast

In 1962 Robin is forced by the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire to undergo psychiatric treatment in order to be cured of his homosexuality. Instead of turning him into a heterosexual his psychiatrist turns him into a schizophrenic. He has a beatific vision and gives a written account of it to the German theologian Paul Tillich who then proclaims in Harvards Memorial Church: The Son of Man is in our presence.Robin thereupon goes in search of the Second Coming and discovers Mark Frechette who will later have the star role in Michelangelo Antonionis film Zabriskie Point. Mark is later crucified in prison at the age of twenty-seven.