…me is the most beautiful language ever created and the greatest works of literature are all written in Irish English, from Jonathan Swift to James Joyce to flann o brien. That's another lecture. I have another lecture, the land where bulls are pregnant…

…the antichrist and twilight of the idols the open society and its enemies by sir Karl Popper and gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift. Warming up here Robert Anton Wilson, I've heard that isn't George Washington not on the American Dollar bill but instead…

…upon his reputation and his influence in the future? I don't think Burroughs view of humanity is any lower than that of Jonathan Swift or mark twain and they've survived. I think Burroughs has survived. The thing about Burroughs is he was sort of the…

…all my life but I think while I was in Ireland Two of the books I wrote in Ireland are very swiftian. I've always liked Swift but I discovered the closest library had almost every damn thing he ever wrote, so I started taking them out one by one and…

…library had almost every damn thing he ever wrote, so I started taking them out one by one and reading all of Jonathan Swift Instead of just gulliver's travels and the modest proposal which is all most people have ever read. I read the drapia letters…

…not be in all respects a good thing for England and all. Sorts of wonderful stuff and I can see a very heavy Swift influence on my book the new inquisition which is a satirical attack on fundamentalist materialism, and also my book natural law which is…

…them contradictory. Contradictory statements are still yet another category we haven't gotten to yet before we leave the meeting was Jonathan Swift in gulliver's travels has this account of a war between two gangs of religious fanatics one hopes you should…

…the antichrist and twilight of the idols the open society and its enemies by sir Karl Popper, and gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift. Winding up here Robert Anton Wilson, I've heard that isn't George Washington not on the American Dollar bill but instead…

…me is the most beautiful language ever created and the greatest works of literature are all written in Irish English, from Jonathan Swift to James Joyce to flann o brien. That's another lecture. I have another lecture, the land where bulls are pregnant…

…attention to the important things. People think the world is going to hell in a handbasket and they have always thought that. Jonathan Swift thought that 200 years ago, Dante thought it 600 years ago, juvenal thought it 2 000 years ago. However far back…

…has more fucking history than anywhere in the world. I went to st Peter's Cathedral in Dublin to see the grave of Jonathan Swift One of my favorite writers of all time. Swift wrote a great tombstone for himself too. Maybe it's an Irish Tradition. Swift…

…I went to st Peter's Cathedral in Dublin to see the grave of Jonathan Swift One of my favorite writers of all time. Swift wrote a great tombstone for himself too. Maybe it's an Irish Tradition. Swift wrote his own tombstone too. I think it's one of…

…Jonathan Swift One of my favorite writers of all time. Swift wrote a great tombstone for himself too. Maybe it's an Irish Tradition. Swift wrote his own tombstone too. I think it's one of the most noble tombstones in the world. It also doesn't tell you…

…noble tombstones in the world. It also doesn't tell you to pause it tells you to travel on. It says: here lies Jonathan Swift, Dean of this cathedral. He has gone where savage indignation can no longer lacerate his heart. Go traveler, imitate him if you…

…Right next to it is the grave of stella. Who was stella? Her name was Esther Johnson. She was a very close friend of Jonathan Swift. He was the dean of the cathedral and she was so close to him that scholars have been puzzling for the last 300 years…

…with me the green carnation? And it's got a picture of Oscar Wilde in the window, one of trinity's most famous graduates after Jonathan Swift and Samuel Beckett and it's got a big sign saying basket lunches. But the police do not know of any gay bars…

…work of professor Finnegan who as I say is quintessentially Irish. You look at who are the really Great Irish Thinkers? Well Jonathan Swift, who proved that just because a man asserts that he's still alive you don't have to accept that. You can still…

…can still argue the matter. This came up in Swift's debate with partridge. Partridge was the leading astrologer in Dublin and Swift put out an astrological almanac under the name Isaac Beckersmith. And the entity predicted partridge's death along with a lot…

…beckersmith's errors. Well the day after his alleged death, partridge published his pamphlet I'm still here beckersmith is refuted and Swift, like a good dubliner sat down and wrote a point by point reputation showing that just because partridge insists he's…

…Viii started the second successful Protestant Revolution. For the next 200 years Europe was torn apart by religious wars until Jonathan Swift was moved to say: we have enough Christianity to hate one another. When will we have enough Christianity to love…

…Viii started the second successful Protestant Revolution and the next 200 years represented continuous religious war in Europe. By 1723, Jonathan Swift made the very true observation: we have enough religion to hate one another but not enough to love one…

…Irish Mathematician who proved that a times b does not equal b times a, contrary to all previous mathematical theory. And Jonathan Swift, who got into a great debate with partridge the astrologer about whether partridge was dead or alive and you'd think…

…the astrologer about whether partridge was dead or alive and you'd think partridge had a distinct advantage in that debate but Swift managed to win because every argument partridge came up with his major proposition was: just: because a man claims he's…