Robert Anton Wilson dies

[Snookie]

The writer Robert Anton Wilson passed away last week. An extract from the obituary in the Telegraph gives a pretty good indication of the kind of human being he was:

 

Scarcely any alternative school of thought popularised since the 1960s escaped his attention as a promoter (or debunker, and often both) of conspiracy theories, theology, philosophy, psychology, occultism, chaos theory, neurolinguistic programming and quantum mechanics, or in his stints as an essayist, lecturer, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, punk musician, associate editor of Playboy and write-in candidate for governor of California, representing the Guns and Dope party ? which also advocated equal rights for ostriches.

 

He justified the last of these roles by asking: "Why should I remain the only nutcase in California who ain't running?"

 

To read more click here.

 

 

I met him a couple of times in the 80s when he lived in Ireland and he was smart, silly and warm individual.

 

RIP.

[£440,000]

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