robert anton wilson happy ending

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I was broke at the time but I would probably still donate to a RAW
fund when a paycheck comes through the grapevine.  He is the reason I
bridged from crappy scifi to literature back in high school.  He's why
I read Ulysses and William S. Burroughs and even Gravity's Rainbow
(indirectly on that last one though).  Cosmic Trigger was far from my
cup of tea but Schrodinger's Cat, Illuminatus!, and Masks of the
Illuminati astounded me back then.  I remember I gave a presentation
on all the occult symbolism in the dollar bill during a book report
for Illuminatus! during high school.  People were sort of weirded out
by the idea even though I presented it as speculation and as a sort of
funny anecdote.  It was also a bit of an inside joke to myself to
choose that book to present given its often unkosher sex.

It's not often that the passing of a famous person really makes me
stop and sit down for any extent.  There's only been a couple.
Douglas Adams was one.  RAW, it seems, may be another...  though
beyond those three books listed above I was rather ambivalent (I read
Cosmic Trigger 1 and Quantum Psychology - QP was better that CR but
still paled, in my opinion, to the three fiction novels - I wish he
had produced more on that front, I feel that his more straightforward
occult-type books detracted from his fiction due to presentation,
certain things are simply better conveyed in fiction at times).

"I will live forever or die trying."  - RAW

On 10/5/06, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> I certainly hope folks will now turn their attentions to putting together
> their christmas package for Scrubby -
> a spindle and a bag of salty snacks....
>
>
> love,
> cfa
>
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> On 10/5/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
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