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Robert Shea
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May 19 - June 17, 2022
Robert Anton Wilson
I had to read up on R. A. Wilson to figure out why the hell I'm reading this book.
I had added a bunch of counter-culture figures to my reading lists about, oh, 30 years ago. It was my 60s revival teenager phase. Little round shades & all. I also flirted with Chaos Magick, hail Eris Esoterica & stuff about hotdogs... it was a weird time.
Anyway, R. A. Wilson (deceased) is Pope Bob of the Church of the SubGenius and was a High Priest of Eris Esoterica.
After remembering his other writings, and the nostalgia wave hit me, I'm feeling far more generous toward this book than I was.
Fernando Poo.
Fernando Po is an actual island near New Guinea.
I think I stopped reading this book because of the whole Fernando *Poo* thing.
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo.
Fernando Poo.
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo?”
Fernando Poo
That's 8 so far
August Personage
Oh Lordy Lu...
I hate names like these. Hiro Protagonist-type names. Too fucking clever by half.
August Personage? Really? We're really doing this???
Fuuuck. I think I know where infinite Jest got it's inspiration from. I'm getting flashbacks to the spies.
Whenever he was high, the least little detail wrong in his world would bring the Fear, irresistible, uncontrollable.
If weed makes you anxious, or paranoid, chew a few whole peppercorns. Some people say it can relieve those feelings.
If you get nauseous or begin vomiting uncontrollably when high, try a hot shower.
‘Ewige Blumenkraft.’…
Flower Power Forever!
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo!”
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo,”
Fernando Poo?”
Fernando Poo?”
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He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which only the most cunning and ruthless can survive. He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs, unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the National
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Wtf?
Ok, yes, I get high & read. But I don't think I'm wrong in thinking this is like, the 3rd repetition of this.
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo.
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo:
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defenestrate
It sounds so *filthy* ;)
porpoise,
So, is Howard a dolphin, or a porpoise?
There's a difference.
“Revolutionaries,” he said, “are dead men on furlough.”
More likely, there are many multiverses, each with its own dimensions, times, spaces, laws and eccentricities. We wander between and among these multiverses, trying to convince others and ourselves that we all walk together in a single public universe that we can share. For to deny that axiom leads to what is called schizophrenia.
Weirdly enough, some science is leaning in this direction.
Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo,”
Fernandoo Poo.”
“Fernando Poo,”
23
The sun was as hot as the bishop’s jock strap when he finished his sermon on the evils of pornography.
The Woodpecker pecked on the out-house door; He pecked and he pecked till his pecker was sore….
Just the tip.
Jonathan D McMillan liked this
a golden apple.
Oh. Duh. It just hit me. The golden apple of Discord. The prize to be given by Paris to the 'most worthy' goddess. Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite. Started the whole Trojan shitshow that plagued me through so many high school Eng/Lit classes.
I just finished *The Song of Achilles*. The first half was angsty, teen romance.
They got me in the second half, ngl. *I* became the angsty teen. "Achilles and Patroclus...." /sigh "So beautiful, so noble, so doomed", as I lift my arm to my forehead and gracefully swoon onto a red velvet couch.
“All hail Discordia,” she answered.
Yeah, baby, gimme more of that good stuff!
Hell, call me anything you want to. If I don’t like it, I’ll punch you in the nose.
Saint Jude
Patron Saint of Desperate Cases & Lost Causes
It makes the overflowing toilet meme that much more hilarious.
“Everybody is a nice guy, underneath it all,” he said. “What we become when the world is through messing us over is something else.”
A chao is a single unit of chaos,
Legion of Dynamic Discord.
Annuit Coeptis
"Providence favors our undertakings" is a closer translation.
“In the beginning was the Word and it was written by a baboon.”
He was launching into a peroration about the mystic significance of the number 23—
This originated with William Burroughs, & was adopted (of course) by Discordianism.
Every frickin' conspiracy out there started with these assholes or Terrence McKenna. He originated the 2012 thing, and the whole 'Santa Claus is a symbol for magic mushrooms of Siberia' thing.
“What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crises,” Simon had said, “and insanity is the only viable alternative.”
Cloud Cuckoo Land.
I just finished this book, too.
It was a fun read.
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,”
Aleister Crowley. A terrible human.
Another reminder that everything I love is trash.
the One-Man Band.)
It took me a minute.
It looked like Billy Graham.
This is the funniest thing I've read since the One-Man Band thing.
