NP but P told us to read him. Ishmael Reed.

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

"Someone once said that beneath or behind all political and cultural warfare lies a struggle between secret societies."

-Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo

This was misquoted at the beginning of Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! trilogy as:

"The history of the world is the history of warfare between secret societies."

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On Sunday, October 18, 2020 12:12 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> That would be the one for me too....I think I stopped out of it long ago, white boy's bewilderment shuffle
> and never went back....(although I looked back often)
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:47 AM Cagliostro_the_Impossible <Cagliostro_the_Impossible at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I remember 1972. I remember Mumbo Jumbo. In 1973, Pynchon told us where all those Masonic Mysteries came from... We should listen...
>>
>> But beware Hassan-e-Sabbah and his gang of Assassins! Our discussions should be encrypted, or perhaps we agree on a set on intermediaries, go off the grid, and out into the desert, the Taklamakan desert, the place of no return, under the protection of the descendants of Tamerlane...
>>
>> But in all honesty, yes I would indeed be all for a group read of Ishmael Reed, perhaps start with Mumbo Jumbo?
>>
>> I cede the floor to the committee!
>>
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>> On Sunday, October 18, 2020 3:14 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The experience here. The complexity of presenting it. The largeness of
>>> its CRITICAL/moral vision yet the grounded fierceness of that vision.
>>>
>>> Gawd, I have wasted much of my reading life in not reading Ishmael Reed more
>>> and following his very life, I say.
>>>
>>> Anyone up for a Group Read before it is too late to save our pale
>>> prejudices?
>>>
>>> Do we think TRP and he are some kind of friends, occasional pen pals at
>>> least?
>>>
>>> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-tragedy-of-stanley-crouch/
>>>
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