Showing posts with label Robert Anton Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Anton Wilson. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Audiobook: Illuminatus! Trilogy


ILLUMINATUS! PART I - THE EYE IN THE PYRAMID
"It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton." And so begins the original and genuine trilogy of conspiracies, Illuminatus!



ILLUMINATUS! PART II - THE GOLDEN APPLE
The Golden Apple serves as a perennial instruction manual for life on Earth in which you'll be lucky enough to learn: the Guerrilla Ontology of Markoff Chaney; the secret history of Atlantis; the conspiracy against sex; the origins of the Trojan War (starring Eris, the namesake of our solar system's newest planet); why gorillas and dolphins don't ordinarily talk to us; the startling truth about UFOs; and the final secret of the Illuminati.



ILLUMINATUS! PART III - LEVIATHAN
"The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences." - Hagbard Celine, Leviathan
Illuminatus! Part III cheerfully ushers in the apocalyptic high-camp conclusion of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. The 9th and 10th Trips are performed by a grand ensemble cast. The Appendices (which are most instructive) are performed by the incomparable Ken Campbell, bringing the audiobook trilogy full circle.


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Robert Anton Wilson: Nardwuar (1996)


"Nardwuar vs. Robert Anton Wilson" by Nardwuar on November 8th, 1996.




Robert Anton Wilson: Aleister Crowley


Bob talking Crowley.

Robert Anton Wilson: Gonzo Sociology


At Home with Bob & Arlen talking Gonzo Sociology 

Friday, 5 August 2011

On Finnegans Wake & Joseph Campbell (1988)


Robert Anton Wilson has enthusiastically studied the last book of the Irish ex-patriated author James Joyce for more than 40 years and still thinks Finnegans Wake is the best and brightest of all books published this past century. He speaks of his connection with the mythicist Joe Campbell through their shared interest in James Joyce at the beginning of the interview. Robert Anton Wilson goes on to positively rhapsodize about Finnegans Wake while including other historical and literary personages who he lists as contributing to his over-all hilarious, fast-paced philosophical-political interpretation of "the great work". If you want to celebrate Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, Robert Anton Wilson and experience how Joseph Campbell fits in, this is a great listen.