robert anton wilson happy ending

[Billy Genocide]

I second pretty much all of that. I don't think there's a single thinker
living or dead who has affected my life and mode of thinking more than Bob.
He was my introduction to Joyce, Leary, Crowley, Buckminster Fuller,
psychedelic thinking in general, as well as a whole mess of other ideas.
Those interests eventually lead me to write and to major in english. I am
certainly bummed that he's dying-- I was hoping to meet him, to at least
thank him for changing my life. But like Leary, I think he's best equipped,
mentally and spiritually, to handle his own passing.

On 10/7/06, gp <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > On 10/5/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/05/note_from_robert_ant.html
> > >
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It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every
day/ for lack/ of what is found there.
-William Carlos Williams
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