Wow, lots of connections. You actually know Robert Anton Wilson?
No, I wouldn't say that I knew him. I was only over at his apartment that one time, invited by a friend of Nick Herbert's, Bruce Damer. He was literally on his deathbed by that point, I wrote a post about it the day after, and I think I mentioned that I thought he probably had at most another 6 months to live. Sure enough, he died a few months after that.
He had a tradition of having a gathering of friends and acquaintances over every Friday night, to read poetry and exerps from his books. (I think possibly when he was younger, he would read some, but by that point, it was just his friends who would read to him). I helped read a portion of The Illuminati Papers out loud to him, we took turns. I remember having a very awkward moment as I was reading and he mentioned the "quantum ERP paradox", and I paused after reading "ERP" and came very closed to saying "that should be EPR", and also glanced over at Nick Herbert to see if he noticed that the acronym was in the wrong order... but I decided to choke it back upon the realization that it could hurt his feelings or sound snarky to point it out, when we were there trying to give a dying man some peace.
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Wow, lots of connections. You actually know Robert Anton Wilson?
No, I wouldn't say that I knew him. I was only over at his apartment that one time, invited by a friend of Nick Herbert's, Bruce Damer. He was literally on his deathbed by that point, I wrote a post about it the day after, and I think I mentioned that I thought he probably had at most another 6 months to live. Sure enough, he died a few months after that.
He had a tradition of having a gathering of friends and acquaintances over every Friday night, to read poetry and exerps from his books. (I think possibly when he was younger, he would read some, but by that point, it was just his friends who would read to him). I helped read a portion of The Illuminati Papers out loud to him, we took turns. I remember having a very awkward moment as I was reading and he mentioned the "quantum ERP paradox", and I paused after reading "ERP" and came very closed to saying "that should be EPR", and also glanced over at Nick Herbert to see if he noticed that the acronym was in the wrong order... but I decided to choke it back upon the realization that it could hurt his feelings or sound snarky to point it out, when we were there trying to give a dying man some peace.