RIP Robert Anton Wilson

[puppetmaker]

I just found out that after a long illness RAW has shuffled off this mortal coil and onto his next adventure.

Off to find my copy of the Illuminatus.....

I am grateful that I did get to interact with him at more than one convention.

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[billritch.livejournal.com]

I only met RAW a couple of times. He was a much closer friend to Brad Linaweaver.

However a I have read many of his books and he (along with Robert Shea, whom I new better) was a great writer of that kind of paranoid conspiratorial books that I love.

I was prepped for his books when I read Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 early in college. When the Illuminatus! trilogy came out in the middle 70s I devoured them. I enjoyed the "Historical Illuminatus" series that began with The Earth Will Shake.

He -- and his talent will be missed.