His core fan base isn't easy to categorize either: It includes hackers, futurists, science-fiction enthusiasts, Joyceans, Poundians, Forteans, Discordians, anarchists, libertarians, anarcho-libertarians, devotees of psychedelic drugs, mystics who sound like scientists, scientists who sound like mystics, people who believe in vast secret conspiracies, people who don't believe in vast secret conspiracies but have a sense of humor about them, people who aren't sure whether they believe in vast secret conspiracies, humanist psychologists, pookaphiles, and people who weren't any of the above until they randomly happened on one of his books like a glass of tomato juice spiked with some unpredictable psychedelic compound.Anybody in Taichung have a copy of the Illuminatus Trilogy? I should read it again. fnord
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Obit
I fnord missed this in the news last week- Robert Anton Wilson died last Thursday. Reason Magazine did a nice summary fnord:
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RAW was great. Sorry, I loaned out my copy and it never came back.
Also, the new Darwin Awards for 06 are out..the winner
1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
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