Even though his body no longer does.
I would say that I’ll miss you, Rev. Loveshade, but that would be a lie. You were so far ahead of me that it will take decades before I’ve understood what you’ve already said enough to need more. I’ll miss you then. I wish you many exciting adventures in your new state of being. I love you.
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Terrible loss. I can read his books over and over again.
The afterlife won’t know what hit ‘em.
Goodbye, RAW. You changed the way I think - there is no greater compliment I can give a person.
Thank you.
New Discordian Holyday:
Sweetmorn, Chaos 11* will henceforth be known as RAW Chaos, in memory of Saint Mordecai the Foul.
* That would also be:
11 January, Gregorian
11 January, Thelemic
11 Saturn, Poundian
14 Decervelage, ‘Pataphysical
21 Nivôse, French Revolutionary
21 Thw al-Hijjah, Islamic (but it will cycle every year, as the Islamic calendar is a lunar one)
23rd day of the 11th Month, Chinese (again, it’s cyclic)
11 Verwirrung, Illuminati
21st of Tevet, Hebrew
5 Wiener Wald, Burroughsian
19 Beth, Druidic
‘Ilm Sharaf, Bahá’í
Asman Dae, Zoroastrian
21 day, Jalaali
as well as many others. HAIL ERIS!
Well, at least he’s not suffering anymore, though the world is… Thank-you Bob, you will be missed.
On the nose, Nag. If I had never encountered RAW, I would be poorer, blinder, and stupider.
“You changed the way I think - there is no greater compliment I can give a person.
Thank you.”
Yes, he did the same for me. It was a generous gift, offered to any willing to accept it, and he never asked for more in return than people were willing to give.
Goodbye Mr. Wilson,
thanks for all the fish…
What DrJon said…and Nag and _thousands_ of others.
HAIL ERIS
Next time I make lasagna, you’re all invited.
I wondered why i was ill fealin…
the bugger went and spread it around before zipping of to see aneris.
forever will your words be sunk in my chao.
Le RAW est mort, vive le RAW!
ok bad pun, even as puns go–but I’d like to think Bob would approve
It is a great loss that RAW is not longer with us, but a great comfort that his–es–work remains.
But, Sir Fancy Reverend John Fenderson, the good news is that Reverend Loveshade does continue. RAW passed the R.L. moniker on to es grandson years ago. Reverend Loveshade is not Robert Anton Wilson; Reverend Loveshade is Robert Anton Wilson’s grandson. It seems that creativite madness can, thank Goddess, be inherited.
You can post a comment on Reverend Loveshade’s, RAW’s grandson’s, blog at http://loveshade.org/blog/2007/01/goodbye_raw_robert_anton_wilso.html
RAW will be missed, but he will live on in his writings and films (Maybe Logic).
All hail Eris!
Excellent! Thank you, Binky.
Well I guess thats it then. Good Bye.
Just to clarify — Rev. Loveshade II is RAW’s spiritual, not biological, grandson. His Grandbob’s relationship with him was clarified on his web site recently. Confusing, ain’t it?
Mark P. Steele AKA Icarus 23 (who, by the way, was a major force behind the creation of the Illuminatus! comic books), are you clarifying the confusion, or adding to it? I hope you’re adding to it.
I greatly miss Robert Anton Wilson, but in the spirit in which e dealt with Discordian matters, will not clarify our relationship. I will admit I did call Bob “Grandbob,” and will post two comments by Bob’s daughter Christina Pearson.
First, here’s what Christina posted on our blog at http://loveshade.org/blog/2007/01/goodbye_raw_robert_anton_wilso.html :
“Hi there, I AM Bob Wilson’s daughter, and just to set the record straight, he had 4 children, one, Luna (her chosen nickname) was murdered at 15, leaving 3 of us - 2 girls and a boy. None of us, alive or dead, have had children, thus, there are no “genetic” grandchildren….”
And second, here’s what Christina wrote me in an email:
“By all means, bob is your Grandbob!”