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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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Mark Twain

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32:13

…interesting fact I gathered from Dr. Segal, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 72 hours on cocaine. When Mark Twain, who by the way was turned on to hashish by Fitzhugh Ludlow, the man who wrote Confessions of an American Hashish…

32:24

…who by the way was turned on to hashish by Fitzhugh Ludlow, the man who wrote Confessions of an American Hashish Eater, Mark Twain started his own publishing house because he was convinced the publishers were cheating him. I don't know how he got an idea…

32:46

…the species Oasis head for the woods when heeding calls of nature. Does the Pope list his religious preference as Catholic? Mark Twain started his own publishing house anyway, and one of the first book he commissioned was the memoirs of Ulysses Grant. But…

33:15

…usual symptoms of aged alcoholism. So the way to keep Ulysses Grant conscious and focused enough to get the damn book written Mark Twain brought him over a packet of cocaine every day. And that's how we got the memoirs of Ulysses Grant. Sherlock Holmes…

1:51:43

…10 years ago and I don't remember it anymore. Thomas Jefferson on the other hand got all of his hemp from George Washington. Mark Twain was turned on by Fitzhugh Ludlow. Do you know how many freemasons it takes to change a light bulb? That's a craft…

1:44:08

…the fact that the gulf war was postponed for five days when they had the whole public built up to a wartime psychosis. Mark Twain wrote about this a hundred years ago. When the government first starts planning a war the majority is against it. There is…

12:49

…the government is never wrong. And this is exactly the attitude we see in what mark twain called the war psychosis. Mark Twain wrote a really fascinating essay on that. He pointed out before a war there is widespread opposition as it becomes obvious…

40:19

…questions like that and he wants all of his followers to have the same paranoia. He's always threatening people he blows up cities. Mark Twain tells a story about a guy who got converted by a clergyman and said: what do I do now that I'm converted? And…