gwax's rumblings

I have just fin­ished read­ing The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson and have enjoyed every moment of it (a sur­pris­ing detail con­sid­er­ing my read­ing habits and its 805 page size). Many thanks are in order for my good friend Rob Malchow who rec­om­mended the book to me this past summer.

The book is a present day (as of the writ­ing 30 years ago) sci­ence fic­tion about inter­wo­ven con­spir­a­cies, poltics, myter­ies, mys­ti­cisms and occultism. The tone ranges from thor­oughly lucid to com­pletely absurd and jumps around too fast, too slow and at the right pace all at once. You will think that you know what’s going on when you do not and vice versa. The ref­er­ences, real and fake, will amuse you to no end. In the end, you won’t know what’s real any­more and you’ll have a greater appre­ci­a­tion for the word “No”.

Hail Eris
All hail Discordia

And remem­ber, you are a Pope

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