The Illuminatus! Trilogy

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Postmodernism: While the book is frequently categorized as Postmodern literature, Postmodernism is deconstructed and parodied throughout. Whether that qualifies as Take That! or Self-Deprecation depends on how much of the authors' Mind Screw you feel applies; however, Robert Anton Wilson has published more direct deconstructions of Postmodernism (e.g. Maybe Logic), so it's more likely to be the former than the latter. (Then again, the authors were apparently pretty big fans of Thomas Pynchon and James Joyce, so take that how you will). Just like Enclosure Acts," I said hollowly. "One day the land belongs to the people. The next day it belongs to the landlords."

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Legend has it that every single one of the bands listed, solely barring the ones that are actually portrayed on stage, has actually existed; the fact that the list contains a fairly large number of well-known ( for some value of "well-known") bands such as "H.P. Lovecraft" and "Steppenwolf" makes the claim plausible. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GFDL; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. As philosophy it would get 1 (the world-view it arg Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The book contains a scathing review of the fictional Telemachus Sneezed. All of the criticisms are aspects of the Illuminatus! Trilogy itself. Genre Roulette: Comedy, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, police procedural, political thriller, pornography...Not the “best” or even my favorites exactly: just the bare minimum of what everybody really needs to chew and digest before they can converse intelligently about the 21st Century – RAW

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The bank robber John Dillinger was actually identical Zen master quintuplets and one of the JFK assassins. There's also Timothy Leary, Adam Weishaupt, John Dillinger, Adolf Hitler, George Washington, Dutch Schultz...You can transcend abject fear and rebellious hatred both. You can see that he is only a part of the Great Wheel and, like all other parts, necessary to the whole. Then you can accept him.” A is not A," Hagbard explained with that tiresome patience of his, "Once you accept A is A, you're hooked. Literally hooked, addicted to the System." Most Writers Are Writers: Several of the characters work for magazines and newspapers, with both outlets playing major roles throughout the trilogy. Shea and Wilson were both working as associate editors for Playboy at the time.

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The trilogy was originally written between 1969 and 1971 while Wilson and Shea were both associate editors for Playboy magazine. As part of the role, they dealt with correspondence from the general public on the subject of civil liberties, much of which involved paranoid rants about imagined conspiracies. The pair began to write a novel with the premise that "all these nuts are right, and every single conspiracy they complain about really exists". [3] In a 1980 interview given to the science fiction magazine Starship, Wilson suggested the novel was also an attempt to build a myth around Discordianism: Big in Japan– Where are they now?". Q. January 1992. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/271 Also known for inspiring early-90s electronic dance musicians, The KLF, AKA The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. Both names are references to the books. There is no budget. You have to find everything you need in the streets. Or steal it. Liverpool is full of things you can use to build the stage sets from. Go and find them.” Apocalypse Cult: The Illuminati Prime (the five most powerful people in the world) are actively seeking to Immanetize the Eschaton — ie, bring about the apocalypse — to make themselves immortal and provide a massive blood sacrifice to their Elder Brothers and Sisters, the Lloigr of Cthulu.Oh, I've said it at times. When it was at least half true. But it always sounded like play-acting to me, and I felt it sounded that way to the woman, too. This time it just came out, perfectly natural, no effort.' The Parody: One of the characters is a book reviewer who trashes a novel that sounds very much like the trilogy itself. Lotsa People Try to Dun It: Five assassins were actually gunning for JFK, although only one succeeded, and one other (Oswald) got caught. Set 50 years after the original trilogy (2026; RAW has finally confirmed that the original trilogy takes place in 1976), it was going to feature a resuscitated Winifred (female member of the evil Illuminati-primus villains The American Medical Association, in the original trilogy) being reintroduced to the world, mostly through Virtual Reality"

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The trilogy comprises three parts which contain five books and appendices: The Eye in the Pyramid (first two books), The Golden Apple (third and part of fourth book), Leviathan (part of fourth and all of fifth book, and the appendices). The parts were first published as three separate volumes starting in September 1975. In 1984 they were published as an omnibus edition and are now more commonly reprinted in the latter form.I didn’t tell him I had no interest in science fiction. I like reality. Ken did not ask me any questions about what I did or had done. He just told me I started work the next day. Lesson two This short exchange took place the day after I first met Ken. It was the summer of 1976. I was 23, Ken was 36. I had spent the previous 18 months being the “master carpenter” at the Everyman theatre in Liverpool, but my responsibilities stretched somewhat further. I thought I knew what stage sets should look like. I thought my drawings were good. Apparently, they were rubbish. Bad Date: the literature critic Epicine Wildblood had placed a personals ad for " men interested in Greek culture" but got an answer from the unnamed, heterosexual Vice President of the US who wanted to talk about how great he thinks the Greek military Junta is. Scott Benzel talking to Jon Bains in a 1993 interview for Children of Sores. Retrieved 11 March 2006. The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.