21 Jan, 2024
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
1979’s The Universe Next Door is the first volume in Robert Anton Wilson’s Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy.
Despite his unusual name, Furbish Lousewart is destined to ride a wave of populist know-nothingism into the Oval Office.
At least, Furbish will do so in some universes.
23 Jun, 2019
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
Three 1975 novels (The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan) together comprise Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus Trilogy.
New York Detectives Saul Goodman and Barney Muldoon are assigned to investigate a bombing. Someone has attacked the office of a left-wing magazine, Confrontation. The detectives soon discover that their case may broaden to include tracing a missing person: editor Joe Malik.
Malik left notes that greatly confuse the two detectives. Malik’s paranoid ramblings document a world secretly run by a cabal known as the Illuminati. The ramblings are self-contradictory. More importantly, they give no hint as to Malik’s current location.
Meanwhile, in an entirely different part of the world.…