RAW

Tragedy and despair!!!!! I learned that the man who was one of our times best and wittiest thinkers and writers, died this week. Robert Anton Wilson(who's web site you can access through the ingredients section of this blog) was one of the most influential writers in my life. His unique perspectives and humorous deliveries inspired me. I'm deeply saddened and recommend anyone who sees this(maybe noone but Franz, but if you're out there and you're not Franz, thanks and spread the word) to check it out. One can also access other material about RAW through the Wikipedia List of Writers and you can see his influence in The Maybe Logic Quarterly or maybe just Maybe Logic.....maybe.

PKD(Philip K. Dick) and RAW are dead........wow, that really sucks...........PKD for 20 yrs now(see the movie made from his book A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey Jr. and Wynona Ryder(who's parents were intimates of Dr. Timothy Leary who was himself friends with PKD and RAW. He may have even been Wynona's God Father.....not sure about that though.))...................the world is much worse off for their passing. These two writers, above all in my experience, could inspire thought in intelligent people.

In the next few days I will try to provide some thoughts of my own about some of these tw o great men's works. Stay tuned and I hope that I can influence even one person who may not have ever read either of these two jedi mind warriors to pick up a collection of PKD's short stories(some of his work has made it onto the big screen.....Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep(made into the movie Blade Runner) or the movies Paycheck, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly and Total Recall) or RAW's epic(co-written w/ Robert Shea)............The Illuminatis Trilogy, or some of his non fiction like TSOG(Tsarist Occupational Government) The Thing That Ate The Constitution.....highly recommended by the way.

So stay tuned for that and please take a moment, for me, to remember RAW and thank him for the way he decided to live his life(started out in a Brooklyn(I think) technical school for drafters and engineers, what a waste that would have been).

Later,
Finn