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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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30:16

…do you know why the Declaration of Independence still exists? It was printed on good, honest hemp paper. The first folio of Shakespeare still exists, printed on hemp. I was in the long room at Trinity College Library. You can look at the first edition…

32:10

…is, if I can remember it, Ulysses by James Joyce the cantos of Ezra pound, science and sanity by Alfred Korzybski, Shakespeare, Ovid Chaucer, Justine by de sade because it raises all the questions nobody can answer. Two books by Nietzsche, the antichrist…

14:45

…in their use of language extremely precise and had great literary style. In some ways Jefferson and Adams are comparable to Shakespeare in their use of language. If they meant some laws they would have written some laws. But the first amendment says…

59:52

…something on your shoulder and it's the floor. Well the machine jumps in so I don't know. Well okay I'll do a recitation from Shakespeare. There was a young lady named puck who had the most terrible luck. She stood up on a punt and got bit on the…

1:04:23

…of my previous titles. Who are your favorite writers? Well James Joyce, Ezra pound and even though it's corny Shakespeare. Shakespeare is an inexhaustible well of a treasury of language and fascinating characterizations too. I reread something by Shakespeare

1:04:23

…my previous titles. Who are your favorite writers? Well James Joyce, Ezra pound and even though it's corny Shakespeare. Shakespeare is an inexhaustible well of a treasury of language and fascinating characterizations too. I reread something by Shakespeare at…

1:04:36

…corny Shakespeare. Shakespeare is an inexhaustible well of a treasury of language and fascinating characterizations too. I reread something by Shakespeare at least once a year and I look at Shakespeare films quite frequently. I have a great respect for homer…

1:04:40

…a treasury of language and fascinating characterizations too. I reread something by Shakespeare at least once a year and I look at Shakespeare films quite frequently. I have a great respect for homer but I think I've read the odyssey about five times but…

1:07:54

…next to Wittgenstein. I couldn't be happier that's the best news since new scientists thought I was a consortium of physicists. What Shakespeare plays are you interested in? Oh all of them but King Lear has always had a special power. I think Shakespeare's…

49:00

…all quoting outstandingly hilarious examples of pompous political speeches and he passes through the library where they're all discussing Shakespeare. Everything is going on at once in Ulysses Every aspect of human life. Bloom defecates in chapter 4,…

1:02:18

…he was a classic he never doubted it for a moment. Joyce was absolutely 100 sure he was the most important writer in Shakespeare. He knew he was creating a whole new literature. He'd be the subject of endless Ph D dissertations and so on. He arranged…

0:09

Okay, the topic let's see I already did my bit from Shakespeare, or was it Tennyson? I forget. Anyway the topic is: the universe contains a maybe, and I would like to propose that the whole world might go stark staring sane if people use the word maybe…

47:38

…all quoting outstandingly hilarious examples of pompous political speeches and he passes through the library where they're all discussing Shakespeare. Everything is going on at once in Ulysses, Every aspect of human life. Bloom defecates in chapter 4,…

1:00:29

…he was a classic he never doubted it for a moment. Joyce was absolutely 100 sure he was the most important writer in Shakespeare. He knew he was creating an old new literature. He'd be the subject of endless Ph D dissertations and so on. He arranged…

13:33

…going to regard any book as the inspired work of god I think it would be Finnegan's wake or maybe the complete Shakespeare but that book of horror stories, folklore, erotic poetry and the ravings of obvious schizophrenics how that ever got promoted into a…

14:34

…interesting one. Oh yeah it has some of the greatest pros in the English Language. I think you tell me something in Shakespeare, Something in h l Mencken, Something in Joyce that compares with this. Such simple words to create such total insanity, such a…

1:07:46

…did not write hamlet. To avoid further confusion we'll say Ronald Reagan did not write the version of hamlet attributed to Shakespeare. And then except for the heretic the heretic was grinning at me impudently we all agree that that's a definitely false…

32:10

…is if I can remember it, Ulysses by James Joyce, the cantos of Ezra pound, science and sanity by Alfred Korzybski, Shakespeare, Ovid, Chaucer, Justine by de sade because it raises all the questions nobody can answer two books by Nietzsche, the antichrist…

29:51

…psychic I'll change my name to Robert Anton Looney, one of the leading academic proponents of the theory that bacon wrote Shakespeare was also named looney. It's a wonderful name for people with controversial causes. You might as well say it about yourself…

59:20

…James Joyce was a powerful influence. H l Mencken, Timothy Leary, Ezra pound, Benjamin Tucker, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Raymond Chandler Elephant duty comics I think I've been influenced by every moment I've been awake since…

1:51:19

…that goes 1, 10, 45, 136, 325 and the next number is 666. What is that mathematical equation, do you know? However, Shakespeare had a grudge against women. At times he even named King Lear's eldest daughter gunnarol. No I don't remember that mathematically…

10:46

…I will hear shuffles emerging from his office but I know that all he's ever done in his wake. I read something of Shakespeare Every year and he rereads Shakespeare. He's in love with Shakespeare. Brian just acquired the little books that they sell and he…

10:47

…his office but I know that all he's ever done in his wake. I read something of Shakespeare Every year and he rereads Shakespeare. He's in love with Shakespeare. Brian just acquired the little books that they sell and he used to strap it on the aluminum…

10:50

…all he's ever done in his wake. I read something of Shakespeare Every year and he rereads Shakespeare. He's in love with Shakespeare. Brian just acquired the little books that they sell and he used to strap it on the aluminum anyway they're little leather…

11:11

…I reread something by Raymond Chandler at least once every five years. I want to say that because saying I read something of Shakespeare Every year might give people the impression I'm saying it just to sound cultured but I read what I like. I don't…

11:21

…give people the impression I'm saying it just to sound cultured but I read what I like. I don't give a damn that Shakespeare is supposed to be a classic and Chandler is supposed to be a talented folk writer. I find Chandler Endlessly enchanting. I know…

1:32:17

…Irish Mythology. He was a very erudite man even though he was a lawyer. I liked him. I'm of the School I agree with Shakespeare. You know what Shakespeare had in Henry Vi, part Ii. First thing we do: let's kill all the lawyers. That's my idea of how…

1:32:18

…was a very erudite man even though he was a lawyer. I liked him. I'm of the School I agree with Shakespeare. You know what Shakespeare had in Henry Vi, part Ii. First thing we do: let's kill all the lawyers. That's my idea of how to begin any utopia.…

5:20

…one not to change it? That's the logic of the Shem ham japheth relationship in Finnegan's wake, which is also the bacon Shakespeare Rawley Relationship and the tom dick and Harry and the many other types of trilogies in the human mind including the holy…

18:12

…and what kept coming to me was the foreignness that you were talking about and it also reminded me of the Shakespeare baking controversy. There's a whole lot of overlapping going on between everybody right now. I mean talk about synchronicity. Maybe it's…

19:01

…Joyce's head and now it seems it's not just Dublin It's a contagion, it's spreading all over the world. The bacon Shakespeare thing you mentioned in Joyce, Bacon and Shakespeare are another model of the twin theme. Bacon is the rationalist and Shakespeare

19:05

…just Dublin It's a contagion, it's spreading all over the world. The bacon Shakespeare thing you mentioned in Joyce, Bacon and Shakespeare are another model of the twin theme. Bacon is the rationalist and Shakespeare is the poet but some people think…

19:11

…bacon Shakespeare thing you mentioned in Joyce, Bacon and Shakespeare are another model of the twin theme. Bacon is the rationalist and Shakespeare is the poet but some people think they're one and so the two become three, the hidden unity, and that makes…

27:47

…could do the same thing in prose. But bach also means bacon in old high German and this brings us back to bacon and Shakespeare and ham Shem and japheth and the trinity and the duality and the duality and the unity. And it's fascinating how all these…