Robert Anton Wilson Dead, 11 January 2007
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fiat_knoxPosted in the Illuminati_Order Yahoo Group:
Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:58 am (PST)
The phenomenon which will forever live in his followers and friends passed away yesterday at 4:50 AM on a binary date - 01 / 11.
Robert Anton Wilson has affected so many and will be missed greatly.
Here is the last entry on his blog:-
Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night
Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.
Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.
RAW
So there you have it. The co-author of the legendary Illuminatus! Trilogy, and a host of other counterculture books, is no more. That which he was, his unpredictable eigenvector, has permanently collapsed into the quantum noise.
One insight from RAW will give you some idea of what he meant to us - well, me and a few people I suspect have the same feelings as I do:-
I Don't Know
Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, "What happens after death?"
The Roshi replied, "I don't know."
Wavy protested, "But you're a Zen Master!"
"Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master."
We'd miss you, if you were taken from us in good health. As it is, now your pain is over, enjoy your journey home, sir, "like a tired child home from a really wild circus".
And we'll miss you, each in our own way, according to our choice.
Hail Eris.
Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:58 am (PST)
RAW moves on 18.01.32 - 11.01.07
The phenomenon which will forever live in his followers and friends passed away yesterday at 4:50 AM on a binary date - 01 / 11.
Robert Anton Wilson has affected so many and will be missed greatly.
Here is the last entry on his blog:-
Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night
(SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 2007)
Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.
Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.
RAW
* * *
So there you have it. The co-author of the legendary Illuminatus! Trilogy, and a host of other counterculture books, is no more. That which he was, his unpredictable eigenvector, has permanently collapsed into the quantum noise.
One insight from RAW will give you some idea of what he meant to us - well, me and a few people I suspect have the same feelings as I do:-
I Don't Know
Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, "What happens after death?"
The Roshi replied, "I don't know."
Wavy protested, "But you're a Zen Master!"
"Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master."
* * *
We'd miss you, if you were taken from us in good health. As it is, now your pain is over, enjoy your journey home, sir, "like a tired child home from a really wild circus".
And we'll miss you, each in our own way, according to our choice.
Hail Eris.
