robert anton wilson happy ending

[gp]

Buckminster Fuller is one I forgot to mention.  Nine Chains to the
Moon has some very great bits in it, along with some that I disagree
quite a bit with.  But I couldn't stop reading it.  That bit about the
map in Critical Path (the only bit I've seen of that book) was also
quite interesting.  And frankly, without RAW, I might have never
majored in English either.  Considering that I started out in
Engineering and was getting straight A's before I switched I suppose I
should send him a letter demanding why I'm not making 80k a year out
of college.

(I kid.  I would take this over anything, which is why I went for it after all.)

On 10/8/06, Billy Genocide <billygenocide at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
> > > >
> > >
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> > > >
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