/lit/ - Literature

Are the works of Robert Anton Wilson worth reading, if yes where should I start (if there isn't a chart for that)?
From the few bits I have read from him he seems like one of the few people who you could have seriously described as wise.

>>11843619
>The narrative shifts between different characters haphazardly, interactions and parallels are interesting so it's worth jotting minimal notes to track the different threads.

RAW was a big fan of James Joyce.

>>11709157
Robert Anton Wilson, pretty much anything but primarily Prometheus Rising.

>>10844396
> footnote takes up all of the page except for one sentence of text at the top

>>10743207
keep in mind it was written in the sixties and seventies, when the world did not have the benefit of a global internet that let teenagers be edgy in real-time.

OP: the Illuminatus! trilogy, the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy, the Historical Illuminatus trilogy even though it ends on a fucking cliffhanger and he died before writing another book, and "Masks of the Illuminati", because James Joyce and Albert Einstein teaming up to confront Aleister Crowley.

>>10083361
late sixties / early seventies.

it's used frequently in the Illuminatus! books, because Wilson used to do editorial work for the Playboy Letters column.

>>10042778
sixties' lit. it was cool in the seventies, when paranoia, drugs, weird sex and revolution was a new thing. if you read it as a sixties artifact, it's pretty good. it has aged about as well as any other sixties' text has.

"To be absolutely honest, although I don't believe in anything too fervently, I do tend to believe in some kind of mind behind the cosmos. I don't like calling it God, because God to most people means a grouchy old man sitting on a cloud, counting all the kids who are masturbating so he can put them in hell later on."
- robert anton wilson

>>7378505
i think he's referring to the James Joyce fanboi structure, which was pretty fucked up.

>>7236112
there is a story, but RAW had a hard-on for Joyce and wanted to play some games with the narrative.

i just wish he'd lived long enough to finish the Historical Illuminatus books. the last one strongly implies there was going to be a fourth.

robert anton wilson